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Aid workers estimated that they had been able to reach less than a third of the storm 's victims.

Aid workers distributed brightly wrapped chocolate Easter eggs to cheer up the children and their distraught families.

It was only a week ago that al-Shabab was driven out of the city, allowing aid workers to survey the scope of the unfolding catastrophe.

While the joys of gadgetry may seem obvious to aid workers, how much has it really done to help victims?

He said hospitals and ambulances had been hit by shelling and several aid workers injured while evacuating the wounded.

Later he said Burma's top leader agreed to permit all foreign aid workers into the country to help with relief efforts.

As a result of the fighting and attacks on aid workers, only 50 percent of civilians affected by the fighting are getting help, he said.

He said he is disappointed the Burmese authorities are not moving to let foreign aid workers and supplies in quickly.

The Taliban, in asserting responsibility for the deaths, said the aid workers were foreign spies and spreading Christianity.

Gunmen kidnapped two aid workers from a Somali town near the Ethiopian border, Save the Children said Friday.

The Government said that it would welcome outside aid but foreign aid workers would not be allowed to travel to the affected area.

He said all aid workers signed agreements not to divulge any information to governments or outside parties.

There is enough food to feed the displaced Kachin civilians for a month, she said, but aid workers are also struggling to keep people warm.

Aid workers estimate that they have been able to reach less than a third of the storm's victims.

assaults on aid workers more than doubled compared with a year ago.

Fewer aid workers are kidnapped than are killed in a typical year, but national staff again are more likely to be victims.

The elderly have had to hobble through the daily chaos of Port-au-Prince, forced into rubble piles by speeding convoys of aid workers.

Mister Baligizi is one of several aid workers attempting to help the local people and refugees from the conflict in Darfur.

For aid workers (let alone recipients) there was no easy way to talk to head office.

Now, the only foreigners browsing the clothing racks are usually aid workers, diplomats or journalists.

They were all racing toward aid workers who were delivering rice when the bridge collapsed.

Aid workers have been able to supply them with less than half the daily water needed.

She said aid workers also take people who have contracted cholera to treatment centers.

Aid workers say the empty camp, known as Ifo Two, is close to another one, Dadaab.

The aid workers have been identified as a Canadian and a French national.

Indeed, the encampments targeted by the Six-Seize plan are among the most visible to government and aid workers and to potential investors.

He says he understands the frustration of aid workers who are not able to quickly reach the survivors with desperately needed assistance.

In the next year, aid workers say, North Korea may fall short of at least 800, 000 tonnes of grain.

But aid workers say the food shortage is very real in the poor provinces far from the comparatively prosperous capital city.

Burma's military rulers have refused to let foreign aid workers enter and begin major relief efforts.

A single LRA bullet, say aid workers, would be all it would take to send the resettled back to the camps.

These roam around the province, and several are kidnapping and killing the very aid-workers who help their own people.

Aid workers and reporters at the scene estimated the numberof dead to be in the hundreds or even thousands.

Aid workers say Thai and Burmese authorities have moved to stop guards at border checkpoints from demanding bribes from the fleeing workers.

ORGANISATIONS that send peacekeepers and aid workers to dangerous places are usually concerned about their envoys' physical safety.

South Korea says it plans to send up to 350 troops to Afghanistan next year to protect its civilian aid workers.

Foreign aid workers and U. N. staff have been advised to avoid Pamir Airways due to doubts about its safety record.

The UN refugee agency argues in its latest report that the risk to individual aid workers has probably decreased in recent years.

Three aid workers, including a US woman and two Sudanese nationals, have been kidnapped in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, officials say.

In other parts of the capital, crowds jostled for access to food and water when aid workers showed up.

Those ambitious journalists, businesspeople and aid workers, as well as prospective spies, should take heed.

US Ambassador Anne Patterson condemned the targeting of aid workers as an attack against Pakistani society.

It has also expelled aid workers, bringing potentially fatal consequences for refugees in war-torn Darfur.

The answers will go into a database to guide the military and aid workers.

Dr. Garfield says this no longer is a problem. He says U. N. aid workers can go anywhere without government interference.

Aid workers report that even the clan feuds that have plagued the strip are being toned down from gun battles to fisticuffs.

Aid workers say part of the problem is the thousands of volunteers who are driving here hoping to lend a hand.

In an earlier statement, Ali did decry what he called the "continuous threats of Al-Shabab terrorists" to refugees and aid workers.

Today humanitarian aid workers are providing food, water and other life-saving assistance to millions of Pakistanis devastated by flooding.

Once the GSM network is up and running aid workers can coordinate the relief operations using mobile communications.

Some aid workers say that families should be encouraged to return to where their houses once stood.

Journalists, businesspeople and aid workers based abroad regularly interact with the local population.

Since the storm, 21 expatriate Red Cross and Red Crescent aid workers have joined the team. More aid is being flown into Burma.

Officials and aid workers said most of those who died were civilians, including women, children and priests.

Hundreds of Somali aid workers, human-rights campaigners and journalists have been killed or exiled.

As the political debate continues, aid workers say shelves are bare and stomachs empty outside Pyongyang.

Many aid workers privately say corruption is inevitable, but agencies are extremely reluctant to concede it exists, let alone discuss it.

Soldiers, police and aid workers are everywhere, making it impossible for any group to really pick through the rubble.

This will help regional planning authorities, aid workers and scientists documenting the effects of climate change.

Foreign aid workers from Kenya, Britain and Italy have been kidnapped and are still unaccounted for.

Our welfare and redistribution system sustains an industry of tens of millions of both public and private "aid" workers.

Aid workers talk of prostitution and persistent attempts by the city to level the illegal dwellings.

Aid workers involved in the operation have been sharing their accounts with the BBC News website.

The latest emergency teams to arrive in hard-hit Yogyakarta province include U. S. Marines and aid workers from China, Malaysia and Japan.

aid workers have said survivors are in desperate need of emergency hospital care and tents for shelter , some waiting days for help.

Two French aid workers have been kidnapped in the Central African Republic, their employer says.

American aid workers as well as soldiers were in danger in Somalia.

Aid workers report rapes and sexual exploitation are occurring and add hock shouters at ad hoc shelters in Johannesburg and Durban.

Violence against aid workers has increased in recent years, even though international laws are supposed to protect them.

Western aid workers hang out at Sana'a's Arabia Felix Hotel for weeks to lobby officials for the registrations and authorizations they need.

And, this will force the agency to ground flights carrying aid workers to camps for refugees and internally displaced people.

Spokesman William Spindler says aid workers who recently ventured into the area to assess the situation were disturbed by what they saw.

United Nations peacekeepers and aid workers must be free to reach those in need.

He says the heavy rains that are predicted in the coming days will make it even more difficult for aid workers to reach those in need.

It may even be foreign aid workers, not locals, who are at the greatest risk overall.

Technology and people power are playing a critical role in getting information to military and aid workers on the ground.

UN peacekeepers fired tear-gas at a crowd who mobbed aid workers distributing food supplies.

It sharply restricted aid and aid workers from the United Nations and Western countries.

Aid workers say their work has been severely restricted with access blocked to key areas, causing enormous suffering to civilians.

Aid workers are concerned that if the conflict returns, conditions could become even worse and access to those in need impossible.

Aid workers report rapes and sexual exploitation are occurring at ad hoc shelters in Johannesburg and Durban.

Aid workers hope the Rohingyas will eventually be granted Bangladeshi citizenship.

Also, another team was created to provide helpful information to other aid workers via a radio broadcast.

Stung from watching people donate old, useless stuff after the tsunami and earthquake, aid workers bristled.

Despite the remoteness of the work and distances involved, aid workers inhabit a small world.

More parts of the region are unsafe for aid workers.

Abby Stoddard says ongoing conflicts in the countries increase the risk of violence against aid workers.

Tonight will be the night to rescue aid workers trapped in the rubble of the current missing persons.

Burma's military government last week agreed to allow more foreign aid workers in to the hardest hit areas.

Troops have been sent to protect aid workers against attack. ? ?

U. N. and Libyan officials say they reached an an agreement Sunday to allow aid workers safe passage to Misrata.

Aid workers have already baptised the earthquake in Haiti a "historical disaster" .

To keep girls from being trafficked again, aid workers had told me, two things are necessary.

Aid workers in Afghanistan, who have long been scornful of American blundering there, are full of praise for these measures.

The decision spurred chaos. North Korean defectors and aid workers say the new prices were ignored.

It also could help non-governmental organizations and aid workers better serve the area.

Aid workers who have managed to reach villages in the delta say they found people who have not eaten for days.

Six of the 30 aid workers killed in Afghanistan this year have been foreigners.

Afghanistan's government is reviewing protection for foreign aid workers in the country.

Aid workers and United Nations staff say the institution is a refuge for civilians.

Aid workers are also distributing food and clean drinking water in the relief camps.

Aid workers waited for visas and the junta haggled about import duties on emergency supplies.

Aid workers called for further effort from governments to relieve the famine.

Aid workers say children are at risk from a variety flood-related health risks.

The generals also were criticized for not allowing foreign aid workers to move around freely in the Irawaddy Delta.

Aid workers say that in reality the nation has been driven deep into penury.

Aid workers are coaching thousands of impoverished families how best to avoid cholera.

Sri Lanka, Chad, Iraq and Pakistan also had many cases of violence against aid workers.

Aid workers are the envoys we send to show our solidarity with suffering.

I arrived in Baraka, a town on Lake Tanganyika that was overrun with Congolese soldiers and international aid workers, in February 2007.

It also had a devastating impact on aid workers.

In Pakistan, 7 aid workers from the Christian group World Vision were killed during an attack on their office in March.

However, the regime has been slow to grant visas to foreign aid workers and let supply planes land.

Aid workers say it's worse than ever as disease and severe hunger combine to kill thousands of people.

Aid workers said they hoped to expand deliveries of water and other supplies on Thursday.

Sometimes it is the most dedicated and generous people who end this way: foreign-aid workers, social activists. Even journalists, sometimes.

WFP Spokeswoman Emilia Casella says the air service flies about 4, 000 humanitarian aid workers every month to 10 destinations in Chad .

The very present of aid workers in the country is the largest source of revenue for Central Africans.

U. N. refugee spokeswoman, Jennifer Pagonis tells VOA aid workers were unprepared for what they found.

Some of those camps have as few as five toilets per 1, 000 residents, aid workers say.

Sri Lanka, Chad, Iraq and Pakistan alsohavehad many cases of violence against aid workers.

Aid workers say that they are on target to ensure that each family has two tarpaulins by May 1st.

Aid workers are likewise already being harassed, expelled and even killed.

UN Chief Calls for Release of Kidnapped Aid Workers in Sudan .

Colds and flus are spreading rapidly, aid workers say.

The camps are crowded, so many families cannot claim the 12 square metres that aid workers deem necessary.

Aid workers say North Korea is facing its worst food-supply crisis since a famine in the late 1990s.

On World Humanitarian Day, we honour these aid workers and thank them for their dedication.

Aid workers in Haiti deny any suggestion of rivalry.

Because the government has barred journalists and most aid workers from the battlefield, it was not possible to verify his report.

Foreign aid-workers in Kabul feel under siege.

The government-to-government aid workers spend time at summit meetings negotiating protocols with each other.

Aid workers say there are also long-term humanitarian concerns.

14 aid workers have been busy afternoon, only 300 people will be stranded all rescued.

The United Nations report, which was finalized December 10, also tracked widespread kidnapping of aid workers.

Hundreds of widows came, aid workers said, and they now number perhaps more than 1, 000 on the hill and its surroundings.

The worry is that the aid workers will merely push up inflation.

So in the coming months as we help Haitians rebuild, let's dispatch not only aid workers, but also business investors.

But aid workers found last year that nutrition in state-run institutions for children and the elderly has not improved in the past decade.

Last week, a particularly unpredictable bunch of rebels captured eight aid workers, one of them Swiss, in South Kivu province (see map)

Aid Workers in Kabul Alerted to Security Threats

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