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NAIROBI Nike Air Force 1 Low UK Sale , May 15 (Xinhua) -- International aid agency Oxfam on Thursday called for a massive and rapid global surge in the aid effort to help millions of people at acute risk of hunger and disease in South Sudan.
In a statement released ahead of the donors conference in Norway next week, the global aid agency said the humanitarian crisis has reached a "now or never moment" to avoid catastrophic levels of hunger and suffering.
"We need a massive and rapid global surge in aid to prevent catastrophic levels of hunger. We cannot afford to wait, we cannot afford to fail," Oxfam CEO Mark Goldring said in a statement received in Nairobi.
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Oxfam called on governments to respond generously and without delay to the UN appeal at a conference to pledge money in Oslo next Tuesday.
Goldring said the 1.27 billion U.S. dollars UN appeal is currently only 40 percent funded – a shortfall of more than 700 million dollars.
The agency urged other governments to follow the Britain's lead and provide their fair share of funding. The international agency also launched its own appeal to the British public to help fund its 25 million dollars work to deliver aid to people in dire need in the crisis-hit country.
"The South Sudan crisis is at a tipping point. We either act now or millions will pay the price. We face a mammoth task of getting massive levels of aid to people at the worst time of the year when rains make many areas hard to reach and turn roads into rivers of mud," Goldring said.
The political violence which triggered the crisis last December quickly turned into inter-ethnic bloodletting. Health posts and hospitals were looted and destroyed and hundreds of health workers fled for their safety and have yet to return. An estimated 30 health facilities are still not functioning leaving communities without health services at this crucial time.
President Salva Kiir and former vice president Riek Machar signed an agreement last Friday to resolve the five-month crisis in South Sudan, which has claimed thousands of lives Nike Air Force 1 Purple UK Sale , left nearly 5 million in need of humanitarian assistance and led to atrocities being committed by both sides.
Since December, more than 300,000 refugees have fled to Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan and Kenya. Oxfam said high-level diplomatic efforts are needed to help ensure the cease-fire holds and negotiations towards a peaceful solution stay on track.
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Since the conflict broke out last December there has been an alarming increase in the number of people facing hunger and children suffering from malnutrition.
More than a third of South Sudan's people - 3.7 million - are facing emergency and crisis levels of hunger and are in need of immediate assistance.
The rainy season has begun and one of the most pressing tasks of the aid effort is to get seeds and tools to people so that they can start planting now.
"If the aid effort cannot get enough seeds and tools to people in time then the chances of a decent harvest in months to come will be lost, which will have a devastating effect on people's ability to feed their families," Oxfam said.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian police said on Thursday they have launched a manhunt for gunmen who shot outspoken opposition Member of Parliament, Tundu Lissu, in the east African nation's political capital Dodoma.
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"We are appealing for calmness as the MP was receiving treatment," he told a joint news conference, also urging well-wishers not to flock the hospital because there is not enough space.
James Kiologwe, the Dodoma regional medical officer, said Lissu was admitted to the hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where he was being treated by a team of specialized doctors.
"I cannot say at the moment how many bullets lodged in his body but he was shot in the stomach and legs. He is alive and doctors are treating him Nike Air Force 1 Black UK Sale ," said Kiologwe, adding that the MP was sent to the hospital in the afternoon.
Freeman Mbowe, opposition party Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) chairman, said Lissu was shot several times at his home in Dodoma.
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Members of Parliament attending a National Assembly session in Dodoma rushed to the hospital to see their colleague.
Last month, Lissu, who is also the President of the Tanganyika Law Society (TLS), called on lawyers to boycott court proceedings in protest against an attack on a law firm headquarters.
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