Sentence examples for humanitarian compounds from inspiring English sources

"Looting of humanitarian compounds has been reported in Jonglei (Akobo and Bor) and Unity.

There has been widespread looting, and friends and peers have reported the shelling and gunfire even hit humanitarian compounds and killed two U.N. peacekeepers.

Aid agencies have declared Yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis, compounded by the worst cholera outbreak in modern history.

The U.N. has appealed for nearly $1.3 billion in aid to respond, but has raised only a fraction of the amount, with a billion dollars outstanding. Malakal has changed hands several times in the fighting, with its market and hundreds of houses burned down and a U.N. humanitarian aid compound looted.

There have been 23 break-ins and armed assaults at humanitarian and UN compounds.

"In this time of compounded humanitarian and security crises, Greece is being pummelled by its geography," said John Sitilides, a geopolitical strategist in Washington DC.

The International Committee of the Red Cross ICRCC) gives warning of severe water, food and medicine shortages, especially acute in Palestinian villages cut off from their urban centers by dirt walls, army checkpoints and trigger-happy soldiers.The humanitarian disaster is compounded by an economy that has plunged from depression to paralysis.

The country's humanitarian situation is compounded by a lack of sustainable and safe water sources, repeated illness (especially diarrhoea), limited access to food and poor child-care practices, which have contributed to an increase in chronic malnutrition.

Psychological scientist Ioannis Evangelidis calls this lukewarm response in Yunnan a "humanitarian disaster," one that compounds the tragedy left behind by the Earth's natural fury.

With Zambia struggling with the same food shortages afflicting much of southern Africa, closing the mines would have compounded a humanitarian crisis and perhaps touched off a political one as well.

But air power gives the Syrian military lethal reach where its ground forces can no longer venture, and has displaced civilians from areas that otherwise might be much more secure, thereby compounding the humanitarian crisis and increasing the number of refugees.