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US juggling 'too many' humanitarian crises worldwide
May 02, 2014
The United States is contending with too many global humanitarian crises at once to comprehensively fund relief efforts, the State Department told Congress today, urging other nations to step up.
The aid landscape this year looked particularly challenging given the emergencies in South Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR), where brutal rebellions and ethno-religious violence have left thousands of people dead, displaced millions and pushed countless more to the brink of famine.