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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  1. Members of the militant Al-shabab in southern Somalia
    Members of the militant Al-shabab in southern Somalia

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    Credit: Hassan Mahamud Ahmed/IRIN
    Source: IRIN

    Counter-terrorism and humanitarian action

    Event - Public event - 17 October 2011 13:00 - 15:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

    This event launches the publication of new HPG research documenting the profound effects that counter-terrorism legislation has on humanitarian action. The authors discuss how the application of counter-terrorism laws undermine humanitarian principles and erode the ability to provide assistance in a neutral and principled manner.    

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  3. Launch of the World Disasters Report 2011: focus on hunger and nutrition

    Event - Public event - 22 September 2011 13:00 - 14:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

    The livelihoods of an estimated 12 million people are currently under threat in the Horn of Africa and nearly 4 million people in Somalia alone are in need of life-saving assistance. Although the world produces more than enough food to feed everyone, in 2011 almost 1 billion people will go hungry. This event is the UK launch of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' (IFRC) annual World Disasters Report (WDR). This year the report focuses on global issues of hunger and malnutrition.

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  4. Famine in Somalia

    ODI On...

    The UN has designated the situation in Somalia the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world.  An estimated 12.4 million people across the Horn of Africa are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. 

    ODI's work responding to the famine has been led by the Humanitarian Policy Group and has investigated:

    • why early warning didn’t translate into early action;
    • the effectiveness of the humanitarian response;
    • issues around access to water and food aid;
    • what can be learnt from previous famines in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere to inform the current response.
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  5. Famine in Somalia

    Event - Humanitarian crisis - 25 August 2011

    The UN has designated the situation in Somalia the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world.  An estimated 12.4 million people across the Horn of Africa are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. 

    ODI's work responding to the famine has been led by the Humanitarian Policy Group and has investigated:

    • why early warning didn’t translate into early action;
    • the effectiveness of the humanitarian response;
    • issues around access to water and food aid;
    • what can be learnt from previous famines in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere to inform the current response.
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  6. Famine in Somalia

    Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 18 August 2011
    The UN has designated the situation in Somalia the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world. This crisis was foreseen - so why didn't early warning translate into early action? Samir Elhawary, HPG Research Fellow debates the issues on this Guardian podcast.
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  7. Simon Levine

    Here we go again: famine in the Horn of Africa

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 6 July 2011

    This week, yet again, the spectre of famine in the Horn of Africa has reappeared on our television screens and in our newspapers. Across large parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, livestock are dying in huge numbers because they cannot get water and pasture. Ominously, no rains are due until September, so even if the next rainy season is a good one pasture won’t recover until October at the earliest. Until then things can only get worse, and the cruellest irony of all is that the first rains bring a cold shock that many of the undernourished surviving animals won’t be able to survive.

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  9. Policy support for WFP consultations on humanitarian assistance and risks in Somalia

    Projects - May 2011 to July 2011
    This project seeks to assist WFP in the preparation, facilitation and delivery of three consultations on humanitarian assistance and risks in Somalia. The outcomes of the first two consultations will serve as a basis for the third, a high-level consultation, which aims to conclude with a broad consensus on key areas of risk and joint action to mitigate such risks.
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