The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) launched its mid-year appeal Wednesday, imploration "nearly $5 billion to meet its commitment to help 53 million people in 34 australia who need humanitarian aid this year as a result of incompatible and disasters," the customer's broker Press reports. "The U.N.'s earliest appeal for 2010, launched last November, sought $7.1 billion but that increased to $9.5 billion with the shock in Haiti and the deepening of crises in Africa's Sahel region, the Central African nation and elsewhere," the news service writes (Lederer, 7/14)...

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