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Thursday 13 November 2014

Fwd: AlertNet Weekly Digest - Ebola kills second victim in Mali, over 13 million displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq, U.N. launched campaign to eliminate stateless in a decade


The top humanitarian headlines from trust.org this week include:

Ebola kills second victim in Mali, over 13 million displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq, U.N. launched campaign to eliminate stateless in a decade

AFRICA

Half of G20 countries have failed to deliver in fight against Ebola - Oxfam

Mali quarantines dozens after Ebola kills second victim

Health workers strike at southern Sierra Leone's only Ebola clinic

One in 7 women risk dying in childbirth in Ebola-hit countries

Ebola surging in Sierra Leone amid lack of treatment centres - U.N.

SMS service tackles Ebola in Sierra Leone, expands in West Africa

Attacks on aid workers in Central African Republic hindering relief efforts

Gold, diamonds fuelling conflict in Central African Republic- U.N. panel

After animals die, northern Kenyan pastoralists turn to farming

What price the rape of a child? In Kenya, impunity can be bought with a goat

Burkina Faso talks agree on plan for return to civilian rule

Mysterious killings in east Congo prompt anger at U.N. and army

Libya faces chaos as top court rejects elected assembly

INTERVIEW-Libya's elected parliament aims to move to Benghazi, restart UN dialogue

Sudan denies U.N. access in Darfur to look into mass rape report

ASIA

Ban meets Myanmar officials, says concerned about Rohingya minority

FEATURE-Young Afghans go online to find friendship and love

A year after deadly typhoon, Philippines women weave their magic

A Filipina mother's story of birth and survival in a cave during Typhoon Haiyan

Philippines' typhoon orphans struggle with trauma a year on

FEATURE-Typhoon Haiyan survivors rebuild lives with farming, pigs, stores

FEATURE-Glints of hope emerge in typhoon-hit Philippines city Tacloban

Millions of Asians exposed to big climate disasters - Oxfam

Sri Lanka landslide deaths linked to early warning failures

MIDDLE EAST

U.N. says 13.6 million displaced by wars in Iraq and Syria

Truce in Damascus district allows in aid - monitor

Turbulent path for Syrian Kurd fighters' "first foreign female recruit"

Lebanon's Druze community fearful as Syria's war moves closer

New food aid enters Iraq as hunger becomes weapon in IS battle

UNHCR warns of winter crisis for almost 1 million displaced Iraqis and Syrians

Islamic State uses women to lure European Muslims with promise of "utopia" -report

At least 33 dead in Yemeni clashes, U.S. drone kills 7

Palestinian rift reopens as Abbas blames Hamas for bombings

Lack of stability in Gaza risks return to war, says UN

EUROPE

Worst east Ukraine shelling for month; ceasefire looks in doubt

Bakery in Northern Ireland to be prosecuted for gay cake refusal

GLOBAL

Sanitation can eliminate slums in less than a generation

SUMMARY: Can we end statelessness in a decade?






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