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                    [Title] => Aid groups: Funds needed to fight Africa hunger
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                    [Title] => Canada asked to do more on West Africa food crisis, despite cuts to aid budget
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UN: $16.4 billion needed to aid most vulnerable

By John Heilprin | December 9, 2014 - 6:24am

The United Nations appealed yesterday for $16.4 billion to pay for global humanitarian needs in 2015, saying it needs that money to help 57.5 million of the world's most vulnerable people.

World

Suspending the right to veto in the event of mass crimes

By Laurent Fabius French Minister of Foreign Affairs | October 11, 2013 - 12:00am

It has taken more than two years and 120,000 deaths in Syria for the United Nations Security Council to finally cease being paralysed by vetoes and make a decision.

Letters to the Editor

Aid groups: Funds needed to fight Africa hunger

April 24, 2012 - 8:48am

 Aid groups warned they are nearly $200 million short of the money needed to fight a growing hunger crisis that threatens more than 1 million children across western and central Africa this year.

Canada asked to do more on West Africa food crisis, despite cuts to aid budget

April 13, 2012 - 1:05am

Canada is being implored to push the international community to do more to help fight a looming famine in West Africa's Sahel belt.

7 people, including 5 French, kidnapped in Niger

September 17, 2010 - 3:00am

Armed assailants, operating under cover of night, kidnapped five French nationals and two Africans working in Niger for the French nuclear reactor builder Areva, French authorities said Thursday.