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 -  Food crisis looms around eastern Sahel in Africa -WFP
Several million people are likely to face a serious food crisis next year in West Africa's eastern Sahel region notably in Chad and Niger , the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has said.

Late and erratic rainfall in September and October, a period critical to crop development, has meant there will be a shortfall of food in this region that is between the Sahara desert and the forest parts of sub saharan Africa.

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 -  INTERVIEW-Vedanta says India bauxite mine will benefit poor tribes
NEW DELHI AlertNet) - The chief executive of the mining group Vedanta Resources on Thursday said a planned bauxite mine in India would benefit thousands of poor tribespeople, refuting regular accusations by rights groups.

Vedanta wants to mine bauxite for its alumina refinery in Orissa state, but the project has been mired in controversy since 2005. Activists say it will rob some of India's most vulnerable people of their ancestral home and traditional way of life.

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 -  WFP to give out food aid to thousands fleeing ethnic conflict in Congo
DAKAR (AlertNet) - The United Nations' World Food Programme next week will start distributing food aid to more than 50,000 people driven out of their homes by ethnic violence in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The fighting - unrelated to simmering rebel violence in the mineral-rich east - erupted at the end of last month in the village of Dongo in Equateur province. It has forced more than 38,000 people to flee across the border into neighbouring Congo Republic and displaced 14,000 others internally, the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement.

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 -  INTERVIEW-Yemen displaced face cholera risk, malnutrition - UNICEF
* New camp to open in a few weeks - U.N. official

* Camp to host up to 12,000 people but may be expanded

* Insecurity, local habits complicate aid work

LONDON (AlertNet) - Malnutrition and the risk of a cholera outbreak are threatening lives at Yemen's main camp for people fleeing fighting in the north, a U.N. official warned on Monday.

Clashes between Yemeni troops and rebels in the northern Saada province have driven 175,000 people from their homes, according to the United Nations.

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 -  Aid workers in southern Somali town moved to Kenya
NAIROBI (AlertNet) - Aid agencies operating in southern Somalia said on Monday they had relocated 12 expatriate aid workers following a deterioration in the security situation.

Rebel group Al Shabaab controls much of southern Somalia and parts of the capital Mogadishu. The group is fighting government troops and African Union peacekeepers to impose its own harsh version of sharia law throughout Somalia.

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