The top humanitarian headlines from trust.org this week include:
Ebola kills second victim in Mali, over 13 million displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq, U.N. launched campaign to eliminate stateless in a decade
AFRICA
Half of G20 countries have failed to deliver in fight against Ebola - Oxfam
Mali quarantines dozens after Ebola kills second victim
Health workers strike at southern Sierra Leone's only Ebola clinic
One in 7 women risk dying in childbirth in Ebola-hit countries
Ebola surging in Sierra Leone amid lack of treatment centres - U.N.
SMS service tackles Ebola in Sierra Leone, expands in West Africa
- SPOTLIGHT: Ebola outbreak in West Africa
Attacks on aid workers in Central African Republic hindering relief efforts
Gold, diamonds fuelling conflict in Central African Republic- U.N. panel
- SPOTLIGHT: Central African Republic troubles
After animals die, northern Kenyan pastoralists turn to farming
What price the rape of a child? In Kenya, impunity can be bought with a goat
Burkina Faso talks agree on plan for return to civilian rule
Mysterious killings in east Congo prompt anger at U.N. and army
- SPOTLIGHT: Congo (DR) conflict
Libya faces chaos as top court rejects elected assembly
INTERVIEW-Libya's elected parliament aims to move to Benghazi, restart UN dialogue
- SPOTLIGHT: Libya conflict
Sudan denies U.N. access in Darfur to look into mass rape report
ASIA
Ban meets Myanmar officials, says concerned about Rohingya minority
FEATURE-Young Afghans go online to find friendship and love
A year after deadly typhoon, Philippines women weave their magic
A Filipina mother's story of birth and survival in a cave during Typhoon Haiyan
Philippines' typhoon orphans struggle with trauma a year on
FEATURE-Typhoon Haiyan survivors rebuild lives with farming, pigs, stores
FEATURE-Glints of hope emerge in typhoon-hit Philippines city Tacloban
Millions of Asians exposed to big climate disasters - Oxfam
Sri Lanka landslide deaths linked to early warning failures
- SPOTLIGHT: Reducing climate change disaster risk
MIDDLE EAST
U.N. says 13.6 million displaced by wars in Iraq and Syria
Truce in Damascus district allows in aid - monitor
Turbulent path for Syrian Kurd fighters' "first foreign female recruit"
Lebanon's Druze community fearful as Syria's war moves closer
- SPOTLIGHT: Syria's civil war
New food aid enters Iraq as hunger becomes weapon in IS battle
UNHCR warns of winter crisis for almost 1 million displaced Iraqis and Syrians
Islamic State uses women to lure European Muslims with promise of "utopia" -report
- SPOTLIGHT: Iraq divided and in crisis
At least 33 dead in Yemeni clashes, U.S. drone kills 7
- SPOTLIGHT: Yemen clashes
Palestinian rift reopens as Abbas blames Hamas for bombings
Lack of stability in Gaza risks return to war, says UN
- SPOTLIGHT: Israeli-Palestinian conflict
EUROPE
Worst east Ukraine shelling for month; ceasefire looks in doubt
Bakery in Northern Ireland to be prosecuted for gay cake refusal
- SPOTLIGHT: LGBT rights
GLOBAL
Sanitation can eliminate slums in less than a generation
- SPOTLIGHT: The Battle for Water
SUMMARY: Can we end statelessness in a decade?
- SPOTLIGHT: Can we end statelessness in a decade?
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