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Pleas for aid as Africa drought sparks crisis
Ten million people across the Horn of Africa are being affected by the worst drought in 60 years. At the world’s largest refugee camp, aid agencies tell Channel 4 News people are facing desperation.
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East African drought ‘worst in 60 years’
A drought developing across the Horn of Africa is now the worst in 60 years – affecting 10 million people, according to the United Nations.
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Syrian refugees flee army advance
As Syrian forces mass ever nearer to the Turkish border forcing ‘more than a thousand’ refugees to flee north, a witness tells Channel 4 News Assad’s forces are now blocking routes to the border.
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Angelina Jolie arrives in Turkey to meet Syrian refugees
UN goodwill ambassador Jolie is meeting refugees who escaped into Turkey from the violence in Syria.
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Syrian tanks ‘shelling everything in sight’ in north
An activist in Syria tells Channel 4 News that the army are indiscriminately shelling villages surrounding the city of Jisr al-Shughour, as dozens more are killed in protests across the country.
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’77 children killed’ in Syria unrest
Amnesty International reveals to Channel 4 News that it has the names of 77 children killed in the recent violence, plus reports of a third child tortured to death.
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Libyan Eman al-Obeidi’s treatment in Qatar ‘outrageous’
Exclusive: As the woman who became the face of Libya’s rebel struggle heads to the US, Channel 4 News reveals how – after her alleged rape by Gaddafi troops – she suffered “outrageously” in Qatar.
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Eman al-Obeidi forced to return to Libya
The Libyan woman who grabbed the world’s attention after accusing Gaddafi’s forces of raping her is forcibly returned to Benghazi. She had escaped to Qatar and was seeking asylum to a third country.
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UN: ‘North African refugee crisis imminent’
As 35 Tunisians die in rough seas in the Mediterranean and 1800 Africans fleeing Libya are turned away by Italy, the UN Refugee Council warns Channel 4 News of an impending refugee crisis.
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The Tunisia Libya border: not catastrophic, not comfortable
Alex Thomson returns to the Libya Tunisia border to find that the situation has changed in the past three days: it is not chaotic or catastrophic – but it’s not comfortable.
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Libya-Tunisia border: guards fire into air to control crowds
Shots have been fired into the air at the border of Libya and Tunisia. Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson says around 20,000 people are waiting at the border.
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Nervous Europe watches Libya unravel
After three months of confusion and hesitation, the French government has decided to get behind the pro-democracy movement in the Arab world, blogs John Sparks.
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Libya: UN calls on Europe to ‘open its borders’ to migrants
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees is calling on countries to open their borders to migrants fleeing from the violence in Libya – sparking a clash with Italy, which has warned of a “disaster”.
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The regional imperatives that might just offer hope to Sudan
The charities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have all offered dire predictions about the outcome of the referendum in southern Sudan on secession from the north. But out International Editor Lindsey Hilsum believes there are grounds for optimism
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UN chief: Pakistan floods ‘heart-wrenching’
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urges foreign donors to speed up the deliver of aid to Pakistan’s flood survivors after describing the crisis as “heart-wrenching”.