Violent protests have broken out in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Protesters have attacked an Ebola Transit Centre run by a medical aid organisation in the town of Beni.
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International emergency relief and recovery organisation Medair and Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) have signed a formal agreement to continue working closely together during emergency responses and ongoing humanitarian operations.
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Answering the call for international humanitarian assistance from the Indonesian government, Medair has decided to deploy its emergency response team. A team of five experienced emergency professionals will arrive on the ground in the next 48 hours. They will conduct rapid needs assessments and start responding to the most pressing needs.
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In response to the recent Ebola outbreak in Beni Territory, Medair is working closely with health partners on the ground to provide a complementary and rapid response to the outbreak.
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Medair arrived in Myanmar in 2015. Our teams focused on three main areas of relief in Rakhine State: flood assistance, disaster risk reduction and shelter projects. However since August 2017, despite repeated efforts, Medair has been unable to fulfil its mission due to severe limitations on humanitarian access.
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Medair is devastated by the loss of one of its locally recruited staff and one of its community volunteers in separate incidents in Leer County, South Sudan on April 26, 2018. Both were fatally shot at different locations and later died as a result of their injuries.
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More than 357,000 refugees have sought shelter in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, many of them living in tented settlements on rented farmland. With the crisis in its eighth year, the level of funding available to support Syrian refugees is declining. Many families are simply trying to survive until they can return home.
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Emergency relief organisation Medair is in Bangladesh responding to the Rohingya crisis with shelter and hygiene kit distributions to the most vulnerable refugees. Almost three months after conflict reignited in northern Rakhine State in Myanmar, Rohingya communities are still fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh.
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Following renewed tensions in northern Rakhine State in Myanmar on 25 August, entire villages from the Rohingya community started fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh. It is estimated that approximately 400,000 Rohingyas have crossed the border in the past three weeks, arriving by foot and boat. UNHCR camps are already full and resources are being stretched.
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