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Tuva Raanes BogsnesTuva Raanes Bogsnes | Oslo, Norway
Director, Media and Public Affairs
Mobile: +47 932 31 883
E-mail: tuva.bogsnes@nrc.no
Twitter: @TuvaRB
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Tiril SkarsteinMichelle Delaney | Oslo, Norway (On leave)
Senior Media Adviser to the Secretary General
Mobile: +47 941 65 579
E-mail: michelle.delaney@nrc.no
Twitter: @michelledelaney 
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Michelle DelaneyTiril Skarstein | Oslo, Norway
Team Leader, Media and Public Advocacy 
Mobile: +47 905 69 287
E-mail: tiril.skarstein@nrc.no
Twitter: @tirilskarstein
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Becky Bakr AbdullaBecky Bakr Abdulla | Oslo, Norway
Media and Communications Adviser 
Mobile: +47 41613766
Email: beba@nrc.no
Twitter: @BeckyBakr
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Middle East:

Karl Schembri | Amman, JordanKarl Schembri
Regional Media Advisor
Mobile +962 (0) 7902 20159
E-mail: karl.schembri@nrc.no
Skype: karl.schembri
Twitter: @Karl_Schembri
Time zone: UTC+03:00 
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Mike BruceMike Bruce | Beirut, Lebanon 
Advocacy and Information Adviser
Tel: +961 81 66 61 74
Skype: mike.bruce
E-mail: mike.bruce@nrc.no
Time zone: UTC+02:00
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Mike BruceTom Peyre-Costa | Iraq 
Media Coordinator
Tel: +964 751 182 3882 
Skype: tom.peyre-costa
E-mail: tom.peyrecosta@nrc.no 
Time zone: UTC+02:00
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Africa:


Geno TeofiloGeno Teofilo | Nairobi, Kenya
Regional Media and Communications Adviser
Mobile: +254 702 910 077
Email: geno.teofilo@nrc.no
Skype: Geno.Teo 
Twitter: @GenoWorldview 
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Ephrem ChiruzaEphrem Chiruza | Goma, DR Congo
Information and Communication Officer
E-mail: ephrem.chiruza@nrc.no
Mobile: +243998883778
Tel: +243814181241
Twitter: @EphremChiruza
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Asia:

Enayatullah AzadEnayatullah Azad | Kabul, Afghanistan
Media, Information & Advocacy Coordinator
Mobile: +930784864304
E-mail: enayatullah.azad@nrc.no
Twitter: @EnayatAzad
Time zone: UTC+04:30


 

 
America:

David GarciaDavid Garcia | Bogota, Colombia / Americas
Communication and Advocacy Officer
E-mail: david.garcia@nrc.no
Tel: +573214957209
Mobile: +573214957209
Time zone: UTC-05:00
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BasmaAlloushBasma Alloush | Washington, USA
Advocacy and Communications Officer, NRC USA
Phone: +1 (617) 966-0333
basma.alloush@nrc.no
Time zone: UTC-05:00

 

 

 

Europe:

Tatiana Stepykina

Tatiana Stepykina | Severodonetsk, Ukraine
Communication Coordinator
Tel: +38 067 828 5827 /+38 050 468 4555
E-mail: tatiana.stepykina@nrc.no
Skype: Tetiana.Stepykina
Twitter: @tatianastepyk1
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Cameroon conflict produces mounting humanitarian needs

DR Congo |

DR Congo: Imminent hunger crisis threatens Ebola-stricken North Kivu

Yasser al Hibshi, 38, lost his house and three of his children in one of the first air raids launched by the Saudi-led coalition on the night of 26 March, 2015. He revisits his neighbourhood and speaks on the site of the ruins of his house about that fateful night. "An air strike hit us on 26 March, 2015, in the first strikes on Yemen. It was between 2am and 2.25am, I was asleep and can’t tell you the exact time. "Three of my children were killed: my daughter Aisha, 11, and my sons Ammar, 17, and Alaa al Deen, 14. "I was taken by an ambulance to hospital where I stayed for more than 15 days. I was injured in my head and have two parts of my spine broken. I was in a coma and had no idea what had happened, no idea that my children had died. "My relatives used to visit me in hospital and I thought my children were in the intensive care unit, not in the morgue. I thought they were OK. I didn’t know until I had surgery in my spine. I got out of surgery and after some five days they started giving me the news gradually. They were gradually telling me this neighbor has passed away, the other neighbour has passed away… I then asked them directly: where are my children? Then they told me that my children had passed away. Three of them. There were some 27 others from Al Muallem’s family, Al Hadrami and Al Jermuzee… all of them were my neighbours. Until this day I expect them to show up. "I took me more than five years to save money and build this house. We lived in it for around 15 years. I had a stable life… my children, my house, my car, my shop … It’s all gone now. I used to have a grocery shop, a car, and I was coping… my kids were studying…. Today we have to pay rental fees and suffering without any source of livelihood. I have no source of income now except for the help I get from good people. Some NGOs reached out to us but now we’re not getting anything. I still have spinal injuries… If I fully recovered I would look for work, but it’s taking long. I feel a lot of pain if I had to pick up something heavy. "We won’t die of hunger because some relatives and friends are helping us. I’ve sold my car and my shop so I can cover my children’s needs. "Yes my children still go to school. One, Najm al Deen, is in the ninth grade. The other is living with his grandpa because he’s still traumatized. He’s staying at my father’s house to live away from the tragedy and overcome the trauma of what happened to us. He was not in the house during the air strike so we try to make him forget what happened to his siblings, because the neighbourhood would always remind him of this tragedy. We were thinking of sending my other son with him but he has not yet fully recovered… he still has shrapnel in his body. Now he’s getting treatment and continues going to school. "I want to tell the world that we’ve had enough of the war. There is too much tragedy, so many families have been wiped out, for what? We hope that God will deliver Yemen and the Yemenis out of this situation. We hope to get out of this crisis." Photo: Nuha Mohammedi/NRC
Yemen |

Yemen: More bombs and weapons will only mean more suffering and death

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Cameroon conflict produces mounting humanitarian needs

The Norwegian Refugee Council is alarmed by soaring humanitarian needs in English-speaking regions of Cameroon.

DR Congo: Imminent hunger crisis threatens Ebola-stricken North Kivu

An average of 87 per cent of displaced people are living on just over a meal a day in areas already plagued by conflict and Ebola in Congo’s North Kivu. Families affected by the deadly virus have lost access to food and are on the brink of malnutrition. Ebola cannot be eradicated if people are left starving, warns the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Yasser al Hibshi, 38, lost his house and three of his children in one of the first air raids launched by the Saudi-led coalition on the night of 26 March, 2015. He revisits his neighbourhood and speaks on the site of the ruins of his house about that fateful night. "An air strike hit us on 26 March, 2015, in the first strikes on Yemen. It was between 2am and 2.25am, I was asleep and can’t tell you the exact time. "Three of my children were killed: my daughter Aisha, 11, and my sons Ammar, 17, and Alaa al Deen, 14. "I was taken by an ambulance to hospital where I stayed for more than 15 days. I was injured in my head and have two parts of my spine broken. I was in a coma and had no idea what had happened, no idea that my children had died. "My relatives used to visit me in hospital and I thought my children were in the intensive care unit, not in the morgue. I thought they were OK. I didn’t know until I had surgery in my spine. I got out of surgery and after some five days they started giving me the news gradually. They were gradually telling me this neighbor has passed away, the other neighbour has passed away… I then asked them directly: where are my children? Then they told me that my children had passed away. Three of them. There were some 27 others from Al Muallem’s family, Al Hadrami and Al Jermuzee… all of them were my neighbours. Until this day I expect them to show up. "I took me more than five years to save money and build this house. We lived in it for around 15 years. I had a stable life… my children, my house, my car, my shop … It’s all gone now. I used to have a grocery shop, a car, and I was coping… my kids were studying…. Today we have to pay rental fees and suffering without any source of livelihood. I have no source of income now except for the help I get from good people. Some NGOs reached out to us but now we’re not getting anything. I still have spinal injuries… If I fully recovered I would look for work, but it’s taking long. I feel a lot of pain if I had to pick up something heavy. "We won’t die of hunger because some relatives and friends are helping us. I’ve sold my car and my shop so I can cover my children’s needs. "Yes my children still go to school. One, Najm al Deen, is in the ninth grade. The other is living with his grandpa because he’s still traumatized. He’s staying at my father’s house to live away from the tragedy and overcome the trauma of what happened to us. He was not in the house during the air strike so we try to make him forget what happened to his siblings, because the neighbourhood would always remind him of this tragedy. We were thinking of sending my other son with him but he has not yet fully recovered… he still has shrapnel in his body. Now he’s getting treatment and continues going to school. "I want to tell the world that we’ve had enough of the war. There is too much tragedy, so many families have been wiped out, for what? We hope that God will deliver Yemen and the Yemenis out of this situation. We hope to get out of this crisis." Photo: Nuha Mohammedi/NRC

Yemen: More bombs and weapons will only mean more suffering and death

Statement by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Policy Director, Ole Solvang, on the US President’s veto to a bill to end military support for the war in Yemen

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