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		<title>Will the lessons of responding to the famine in the Horn of Africa be learned for the Sahel?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another famine is looming in Africa’s Sahel region – the third drought in the area in the last 10 years.  And the big question facing the international community is whether the lessons of not responding soon enough to the drought in the Horn will be learned – and acted upon – here. We know already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disasters in numbers – 2011 wasn’t that bad a year, just 207 million people affected</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.advanceaid.org/?p=1304</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to 2012.  However, this year is unlikely to be better than 2011. The thing about major disasters is that whilst we don’t know exactly where the next one is going to hit, we can be certain that there will be a next one – and even take some well-informed guesses about where it might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Approach to dealing with famine and crises has to change say Oxfam and Save the Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.advanceaid.org/?p=1300</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A report this week by Oxfam and Save the Children has concluded that many lives were lost, livelihoods unnecessarily ruined and a lot of donor money wasted because the early warnings about the famine in the Horn of Africa were not heeded and not acted upon. Readers of this blog will not be surprised by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US changes tack and goes for local procurement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.advanceaid.org/?p=1295</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Early in February there’s a big change happening that could impact significantly on the way that development assistance is spent – and on the impact that it can have.  The United States of America is changing its stance on procurement to allow US-donated funds to be spent on buying goods from developing countries.  And it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refugee numbers – and fear of war – build in South Sudan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.advanceaid.org/?p=1283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, in the run up to the independence referendum and then to independence itself, there was widespread fear that there would be war between Sudan and the new state of South Sudan.  But in the event things passed off relatively quietly. Since July’s independence, there has been ongoing, but relatively low-level, fighting and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take a time out for 15 uplifting African talks on TED</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.advanceaid.org/?p=1278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are not already a fan of TED, you should be.  TED is a nonprofit organisation devoted to a concept it calls ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’ and there are some fabulous ideas on there, beautifully and succinctly presented. Launched in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds, Technology, Entertainment and Design, its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Durban fiddles whilst the world burns</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.advanceaid.org/?p=1270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As EU commissioner Georgieva was speaking about the growing frequency and intensity of natural disasters – and linking them explicitly to climate change – the world’s leaders were, in effect, agreeing to do nothing about said climate change at COP 17 in Durban. Of course, they wouldn’t put it like that, they’re all being very reasonable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Famine looms in the Sahel, but $1 invested now can save up to $7 later</title>
		<link>http://blog.advanceaid.org/news/famine-looms-in-the-sahel-but-1-invested-now-can-save-up-to-7-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva warned yesterday that the Sahel region of West Africa was in danger of slipping into famine and that help should be provided now – indeed it was already being provided by the EU. She said that it was not only ethically and morally right to send aid now, before things reached [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Shabaab bans 16 Western aid agencies from areas it controls in famine-hit Somalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The population in war-torn Somalia received another blow last week as Al Shabaab banned 16 aid agencies from territory that it controls, including UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, UNHCR, Norwegian Church Aid and others from Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Germany, and France. These aid agencies were banned, according to Al Shabaab, because they were “fostering secularism”, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good news!  Africa doesn’t come bottom in corruption</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.advanceaid.org/?p=1257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Good news for sub-Saharan Africa – it’s not as corrupt as some other parts of the world according to the latest Corruption Perceptions Index produced by Transparency International (TI).  Although there’s still quite a lot of work to be done if you have a look at the colourful map on page four of the TI report. [...]]]></description>
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