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Red Cross delivers aid in Lebanon

Aid workers moved gingerly around unexploded bombs littering southern Lebanon today to deliver food and fuel to people cut off by weeks of fighting and to evacuate war wounded to hospitals, officials said.

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UN warns Lebanon aid supply could be cut off

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UN convoy reaches Qana as others are delayed

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UN convoys delayed in Lebanon

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Cash crisis forces UN food agency to cut Darfur rations

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Sudanese army surrounds Darfur refugee camps

The Sudanese army and police have surrounded several refugee camps in the war-torn region of Darfur and denied access to humanitarian groups, the UN said today.

Tue, 02 Nov, 2004

UN relief workers discover Congo rape atrocities

UN relief workers are finding thousands of women who have suffered “atrocious rapes” during five years of civil war in Congo, a spokeswoman said today.

Tue, 04 Nov, 2003

UN steps up efforts to reach remote Afghan communities

The UN is to start using helicopters to deliver aid to remote mountain regions in northern Afghanistan.

Fri, 11 Jan, 2002

Aid starts to return to Afghanistan

Vital food convoys from Pakistan to Afghanistan, suspended last week because of security fears, have restarted, a UN aid official said today.

Tue, 20 Nov, 2001

Food aid worries continue in Afghanistan

World Food Programme (WFP) spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume has said that a suspension of the bombing in Afghanistan would not necessarily alleviate the problems faced by aid agencies.

Sun, 21 Oct, 2001

Afghan situation no worse - World Food Programme

The World Food Programme (WFP) today claimed that the food situation in Afghanistan was no worse now than before the war on terrorism.

Sun, 21 Oct, 2001