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A group of people is getting a million dollar prize
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), a frontline organisation assisting refugees and displaced people in conflict areas, has been awarded the world’s largest annual humanitarian award for a nonprofits worth $2.5 million (over 20 crore). The council’s secretary-general, Jan Egeland, returned from a trip to Somalia, where he said that the population of Yemen is dependent…
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As it braces for a famine during a long, dry spell, Africa’s youngest nation battles hunger.
The number of severely malnourished kids at a health clinic in a camp in Baidoa, Somalia has jumped five-fold over the last six months, a doctor said. “The number of severely malnourished kids…has jumped,” he added. The United Nations says 700 children died in nutrition centres in Somalia in the first eight months of this…