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  1. CARE has reached over 700,000 people in Ethiopia with nutrition, food, water, shelter, and support to their livelihoods. Photo: CARE/Sandra Bulling

    Ethiopia food crisis: People getting back on their feet

    07 February 2012 08:32 GMT | Comments (1)

    care-international | Aid Worker Diaries

    I clearly remember July 2011 when the world started to focus its attention on the food crisis in the Horn of Africa.

  2. Bringing light to Somali refugees in Ethiopia

    25 November 2011 11:38 GMT | Comments (0)

    Miriam Furze | Aid Worker Diaries

    Flying into Dollo Ado by helicopter you can see the refugee camps from the air. From this height it’s hard to imagine the ...

  3. Sara, a Relief Committee member from Kiwanja, Kenya, with the mobile phone she uses to receive humanitarian information from ActionAid via Frontline SMS

    Information as aid in East Africa’s famine

    21 September 2011 14:39 BST | Comments (0)

    ActionAid, Airlie Taylor | Africa Views

    In any emergency, be it natural disaster or man-made, long- or short-term, people’s lives are turned upside down. Knowing ...

  4. PHOTO: Thomas Mukoya / Reuters

    Tell them that you have been to a place where they have no food

    07 September 2011 15:11 BST | Comments (0)

    save-the-children | Aid Worker Diaries

    “Tell them that you have been to a place where they have no food, they have no water, no schools and no health clinics. Tell ...

  5. Dire Humanitarian Situation for Somalis Fleeing into Ethiopia

    02 September 2011 11:16 BST | Comments (0)

    echo-echo | Aid Worker Diaries

    I have just returned from a mission to the Dolo Ado refugee camps in southern Ethiopia, near the border with Somalia. This is...

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