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- Aid urgently needed to avert serious famine in Ethiopia: Unicef
- GENEVA AFP — Humanitarian aid is urgently needed in Ethiopia, where drought and soaring food prices have led to a crisis that could match a severe famine that hit five years ago, a Unicef official said Thursday. "At the moment it's not 2003 all over again. At the moment...
- Research articles 2008-06-26
- George Clooney named UN's messenger of peace
- UNITED NATIONS AFP — UN chief Ban Ki-moon has picked Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney, a passionate advocate for an end to war and famine in Sudan's Darfur region, as the world body's latest Messenger of Peace, an official said Friday. The Oscar-winning US actor was recognized for his tireless...
- Research articles 2008-01-18
- Reciprocal Comparison and African History: Tackling Conceptual Eurocentrism in the Study of Africa's Economic Past
- Abstract: This article argues for constructive responses to the dominance, in the analysis of African economic history, of concepts derived from Western experience. It reviews the existing responses of this kind, highlighting the fact that some of the most influential ideas applied to African economies, past and present, have been...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Sahrawi Red Crescent claims WFP is blocking refugee aid
- ALGIERS AFP — The president of the Sahrawi Red Crescent accused a United Nations organisation of withholding funds needed to avert famine in Saharan refugee camps, Algeria's APS news agency said. "For three months the World Food Programme WFP has kept a Spanish donation valued at 1.5 million euros (1.94...
- Research articles 2007-01-16
- Darfur leader says Janjaweed attacking key town
- KHARTOUM AFP — Pro-government Sudanese militias are attacking the key Darfur town of El-Fasher, a former rebel leader allied with Khartoum said, threatening to quit the government if the assault was not halted. "Even as I am talking to you, we are facing a Janjaweed attack on El-Fasher's cattle market,"...
- Research articles 2006-12-04
- Hunger driving NKorea refugees, world must open doors: report
- SEOUL AFP — Hunger is driving increasing numbers of North Koreans to risk their lives fleeing over the border in a humanitarian tragedy overshadowed by the nuclear crisis, a leading think-tank said. In a report, the International Crisis Group urged China to halt its policy of repatriating the refugees back...
- Research articles 2006-10-26
- Famine worst in conflict countries: study
- WASHINGTON AFP — Three-quarters of the world's hungriest people are in conflict zones, where warring parties use access to food as a weapon, a new study said. The Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI said among the 12 countries hit worst by famine, nine were affected by conflict between...
- Research articles 2006-10-13
- War photographer lives with horror engraved on his mind
- ARLES, France AFP — Covering peace is harder than capturing images of war, said veteran British photographer Don McCullin warning young journalists to avoid combat zones, saying he will never escape the horrors he has seen. McCullin, who turns 71 in October, has spent the last 40 years covering...
- Research articles 2006-07-11
- Dam debate
- The World Bank, once a heavy booster of dams, has decreased support of new major dam projects significantly over the last 35 years as current dams become increasingly problematic. Author Jacques Leslie visited heavily dammed areas in India, southern Africa and southeast Australia to research the issue with engineers, activists...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- To dam or not to dam?
- The World Bank, once an enthusiastic supporter of dam building, has decreased its involvement in new dam projects significantly over the last 35 years as current structures become increasingly problematic. Author Jacques Leslie visited heavily dammed areas in India, southern Africa and southeast Australia to investigate. Leslie chronicles his experiences...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- US pledges extra 92 mln dollars in famine aid to Horn of Africa
- WASHINGTON AFP — President George W. Bush has pledged 92 million dollars in aid to the Horn of Africa countries to prevent famine that again is threatening the region, the White House said. The aid is in addition to more than 150 million dollars in emergency humanitarian food and...
- Research articles 2006-04-06
- East Africa's famine victims 'on their last legs': UN
- BONN AFP — An estimated 11 million east Africans facing drought-induced famine will not survive without urgent food relief, a spokesman for the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said. "It is real crisis. The drought began late last year and they are on their last legs," said Henri Josserand,...
- Research articles 2006-03-29
- Tanzania appeals for food aid as millions face chronic famine
- DODOMA AFP — Tanzania appealed for some 100,000 tonnes of relief food to help nearly four million people threatened by famine in wake of scorching drought currently that is ravaging east African nations. "The food shortage is acute and widespread. May I on behalf of the government of Tanzania...
- Research articles 2006-02-13
- Somali president appeals for aid as famine threatens Horn of Africa
- NAIROBI AFP — Somalia's transitional president appealed for 60 million dollars in urgent aid for some two million southern Somalis facing severe food and water shortages amid an increasing threat of famine across large swaths of the drought-stricken Horn of Africa. In a statement released as drought and pre-famine...
- Research articles 2005-12-29
- Kenya renews aid plea as famine threatens millions in east Africa
- KILIFI, Kenya AFP — Kenya renewed an urgent appeal for help in coping with severe food and water shortages, amid dire warnings that more than six million people in three countries across drought-hit east Africa face famine. On his second visit this week to Kenya's worst-affected regions, President Mwai...
- Research articles 2005-12-30
- 'Christmas famine' kills 20 in Kenya's drought-hit north
- WAJIR, Kenya AFP — Relief operations in Kenya's drought-hit northeast intensified as President Mwai Kibaki inspected food and water distribution in the region where local officials say at least 20 people have died from hunger and related illness this month. Amid an outcry over what local media have dubbed...
- Research articles 2005-12-27
- Pope says world hunger man-caused
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope Benedict XVI, in a condemnation of world hunger, said that famine was caused by human selfishness and the profit motive as well as by atmospheric or geographical circumstances. Writing on the 60th anniversary of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization FAO, the pope said...
- Research articles 2005-10-15
- Obscenity of the month
- The famine in Niger is making headlines around the world, but the country's leader says otherwise. "The people of Niger look well fed, as you can see," President Mamadou Tandja told the BBC.
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- 2,000 Angolan families threatened with famine
- LUANDA AFP — About 2,000 families in five Angolan provinces are facing famine with malnutrition affecting up to 60 percent of the population, according to a recent study by the UN World Food Programme. In some remote areas, Angolans are living on one meal a day, while babies aged...
- Research articles 2005-09-16
- UN's Annan heads for Niger to assess serious food crisis
- NIAMEY AFP — UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was awaited in Niger to assess the impact of devastating famine in the west African largely desert country, one of the poorest in the world. Annan was scheduled to start his visit in Niger's second city, Zinder, in the south of...
- Research articles 2005-08-23
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