The number of hungry people in the world has passed the one billion mark for the first time ever, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, meaning that one in six people go to bed desperately hungry every night.
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Recent political instability in D.R. Congo forced many Congolese nationals to flee fighting by crossing into western Uganda. ACF was onsite supplying emergency water and sanitation assistance to a camp in Matanda, where some 11,000 refugees were living.
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International humanitarian organizations Action Against Hunger, Islamic Relief, and Save the Children have issued a joint appeal for urgent action to contain and reverse the alarming rates of acute malnutrition uncovered in Kenya’s northeastern province.
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