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"At least 800,000 people in the path of the cyclone need emergency food assistance" says Anthea Webb, the World Food Programme's deputy director for Asia and the Pacific. Reporting on the impact of Cyclone Mocha five days after the devastating storm barrelled through Myanmar, Webb adds that "greater needs for food, shelter, water, health and other humaniarian aid are expected to be revealed". Earlier on Friday, Myanmar's ruling junta said the death toll had risen to 145 in the country. SOUNDBITE
Some 200,000 people have now fled Sudan to escape fighting that erupted in mid-April, in addition to hundreds of thousands who have been displaced inside the country, says UN refugee agency spokesperson Olga Sarrado.
Some 200,000 people have now fled Sudan to escape fighting that erupted in mid-April, in addition to hundreds of thousands who have been displaced inside the country, says UN refugee agency spokesperson Olga Sarrado. SOUNDBITE
In tonight's edition: The number of Sudanese uprooted by war has doubled over the last week. Some 30,000 people have arrived in Chad. And in an exclusive investigation our correspondents take a look inside of one of Guinea Bissau's only rehab centres. In DRC, after an earthquake shook the city of Kisany 20 years ago, three Belgian women created a small company where 200 women have been trained in luxury embroidery to turn their lives around.
In tonight's edition: WFP resumes its operations in Sudan, the conflict continues amidst a little respected truce extension and warning of a humanitarian catastrophe. Senegal registers the first death from a closely watched outbreak of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. And extrmist fighters from the CODECO militia attack several villages in the country's northeast Ituri province.
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