Famine

Washington Post: Global Action to Save Global Growth 2008-07-03

What's needed, in effect, is a "green revolution" of the sort that once transformed Southeast Asia , this time with a focus on small farmers in Africa .

World Socialist Web Site: Global food price rises exacerbate famine in Ethiopia and Somalia 2008-07-03

At the time of decolonisation in the 1960s, Africa was not just self-sufficient in food but was actually a net food exporter... Today the continent import ...

Pembroke Daily Observer: Growing food crisis clashes with emphasis on biofuel 2008-07-02

It is also terribly stupid: mass starvation will create political pressures to make today's problems of failed states -such as Afghanistan -seem picayune ...

AllAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Will the West Step in to End Mugabe's Reign of Terror? 2008-07-02

But even without this, Zimbabwe -- with inflation running at 1000% per day, and mass starvation and terror -- could just implode.

This is Money: Ruthie Henshall: Me & my money 2008-07-02

It's either feast or famine in our business. You do a job, get paid well, then you've got to eke it out. I'm a patron of Theatrecares, an offshoot of ...

Metro: The Jive Talker has the gift of the gab 2008-07-02

His fumbling discovery of girls and pop music, his trials at the 'Eton of Africa ' Kamazu Academy and an interlude in South Africa where everyone rips him ...

This is Money: Ruthie Henshall: Me & my money 2008-07-02

It's either feast or famine in our business. You do a job, get paid well, then you've got to eke it out. I'm a patron of Theatrecares, an offshoot of ...

Bloomberg: Ethiopia Fights Off Famine Image by Growing Long-Stemmed Roses 2008-07-02

As a result, flower exports have grown to $125 million from $159000 six years ago, helping make the country Africa's second-largest flower exporter ...

this is hampshire.net: BBC's Mike rescued by lifeboat 2008-07-02

He is perhaps best known for his coverage of the Ethiopian famine in 1984. His reports alerted the world to the extent of the tragedy and led directly to ...

Blogger News Network: Obama attack machine hits McCain"s military service 2008-07-02

Many years later, it was Senator McCain who assisted President Clinton to reestablish ties with Viet Nam, which after years of famine and ethnic cleansing ...

Journal of Turkish Weekly: Food Crisis: How to avoid it? 2008-07-02

... its income on food and high prices and stresses on supply inevitably threaten unrest in poorer parts of the world at best and mass starvation at worst.

Reuters South Africa: Clashes in Somalia kill 53 and dozens wounded 2008-07-02

The UN children's agency UNICEF called on the world to act to avert famine in Somalia and other parts of the Horn of Africa . It said acute malnutriti ...

Washington Post: Washington Post Foreign Service 2008-07-02

... in play just across the border in Ethiopia, and aid groups are warning that large swaths of the Horn of Africa are hovering at the threshold of famine .

Plus News: Is there a better way to say "opportunistic infection 2008-07-02

Linguists at South Africa's University of Stellenbosch are beginning to analyse the interactions between patients and doctors at selected sites in ...

ArtslinkNews: 'Cape Town"s Got Talent™' 2008-07-02

Carl Isaacs of Shine Creative, is one of South Africa "s top hair & make up stylists who has worked with the likes of Helen Mirren, Natalie Becker, Im ...

Tyger Burger: Hitmaker to visit SA soon 2008-07-02

ONE of the most prolific hitmakers, Lionel Richie will tour South Africa in November this year. He has set aside 22 November to perform in Cape Town ...

Moneyweb: Have courage Chicken Licken 2008-07-02

People whose mothers and fathers faced famine drive cars, live in neat new houses and eat meat and fish in addition to rice.

Plus News: Is there a better way to say "opportunistic infection 2008-07-02

Linguists at South Africa's University of Stellenbosch are beginning to analyse the interactions between patients and doctors at selected sites in ...

ArtslinkNews: 'Cape Town"s Got Talent™' 2008-07-02

Carl Isaacs of Shine Creative, is one of South Africa "s top hair & make up stylists who has worked with the likes of Helen Mirren, Natalie Becker, Im ...

AllAfrica.com: Uganda: Kutesa Calls On Zim to Exercise Restraint 2008-06-30

The British High Commissioner, Mr Francois Gordon, also expressed the UK's concern on the anarchy and mass starvation in Zimbabwe.

BBC News: UN strikes food deal with N Korea 2008-06-30

The deal comes amid warnings North Korea could be facing famine . It has been reliant on international food aid for years and problems were compounded ...

Guardian Unlimited: Mugabe is weakened, but he still won't back down 2008-06-30

South Africa's leader, Thabo Mbeki, is widely seen as chief enabler and perpetuator of Mugabe's misrule through his misjudged pursuit of a supine "quiet ...

Online Journal: Carthago delenda est 2008-06-30

[14] Latin America has been non-democratic for most of the 20th century and yet the South Americans nations have known neither famine nor war.

Dispatch Online: Our Opinion 2008-06-30

The IFRC said that such a situation exists in sub-Saharan Africa , which is home to about two-thirds of the world"s HIV- positive cases.

International Herald Tribune: US delivers wheat as North Korea expands aid access 2008-06-30

That came amid a famine that eventually killed an estimated 2 million North Koreans. For years, the World Food Program has struggled to gain more acce ...

Reuters: UN expands food aid to N.Korea; US help arrives 2008-06-30

... pushed North Korea to a food shortfall similar to ones it faced about a decade ago when famine killed an estimated 1 million people, experts have said.

Bloomberg: Most Asian Stocks Drop in Worst First Half Since 1992 on Oil 2008-06-30

``Given how Asian markets move from feast to famine , it looks highly probable that Asia will slide to 420,'' analysts at Citi including Markus Rosgen wrote ...

Bloomberg: Asian Commodity Stocks Climb, Trimming Worst 1H Loss Since 1992 2008-06-30

``Given how Asian markets move from feast to famine , it looks highly probable that Asia will slide to 420,'' analysts at Citi including Markus Rosgen wrote ...

New York Times: US Food Aid Arrives in North Korea 2008-06-30

íWe will have a much greater degree of randomness to our monitoring visits,ì said Tony Banbury, the WFP Asia regional director, in a telephone interview.

Las Vegas Sun: New warming threat 2008-06-30

Famine and water shortages are certainly among them. So are unstable governments that allow terrorism to thrive. Although it is justifiable to raise ...

Michigan Daily: Tom Michniacki: Band-Aid aid 2008-06-30

Without a doubt, Africa is overlooked. We hardly notice that millions of people are needlessly dying each year from disease, warfare and famine .

Standard Freeholder: Food for fuel: Time to take stand 2008-06-30

It is also terribly stupid: mass starvation will create political pressures to make today's problems of failed states -- such as Afghanistan -- seem ...

World War 4 Report: Eritrea crisis worsens Djibouti food shortages 2008-06-29

"The border conflict could have important food security implications for Djibouti and the greater East Africa region." Djibouti's pastoral communitie ...

Nazret.com: Ethiopia - A Policy being Criticized: The US in the Horn of Africa 2008-06-29

First there are persistent reports of Famine in the Country and there is an insurgency currently active in the Ogaden. In a recent report Human Rights Watch ...

LeadershipNigeria: A Season Of Deaths 2008-06-29

It is in the bible and I believe it is also in the Koran that a time like this will come and nations will rise against nations while famine will take over ...

Huffington Post: Theater/Art: London Calling 2008-06-28

But they're not done yet: there's a German-language production and a tour of Australia and Asia in the works because they'd like to lose some more money.

IPS: CHINA: Quake Highlights Urban Privilege 2008-06-27

Several Chengdu people admitted having never heard from their parents that there was a famine during the Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s.

The Indypendent: Market Madness: How Speculators are Manipulating & Profiting ... 2008-06-27

Absent a global famine , normal demand or supply issues cannot explain why rice prices have tripled in Asia in just a few months.

Guardian Unlimited: The Wahhabisation of Pakistan 2008-06-27

Sub-continental history is dotted with intermittent mass movement of people ê usually triggered by famine , war or worse ê replete with attendant tales ...

AllAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Mugabe the 'Mad Czar' 2008-06-27

The beneficiaries from this apparently patriotic act didn't know what high price they would pay for this until famine set in, obviously the consequence ...

Reuters South Africa: Somalia humanitarian crisis worsening - aid group 2008-06-27

By Daniel Trotta NEW YORK (Reuters) - Somalis face mass starvation , with snipers, bombers and kidnappers increasingly targeting aid workers and civilians ...

Afika: World needs a plan for Mugabe lunacy (Editorial) 2008-06-27

... he has now enslaved them in a manic grip that has seen hundreds of thousands unemployed and famine stricken Zimbabweans become economic refugees.

Ethiopian Review: Volunteers come to the aid of famine victims in Wolayita 2008-06-27

In March 2008, the IFRC has launched a 45 million Swiss franc long-term food security initiative targeting 15 countries across Africa , including Ethiopia.

TIME: The Lesson of Zimbabwe's "Election" 2008-06-27

... a bad name by associating it with big power unilateralism; the crises got bigger ë genocide in Darfur, famine in North Korea, a cyclone in Burma.

Kaiser network.org: HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa Should Be Classified ... 2008-06-27

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is so severe that it should be classified as a disaster comparable to famine or floods, according to a report ...

Sydney Morning Herald: Hub-and-spoke security system may poke East Asia in the eye 2008-06-27

But it keeps the six-party process alive and nudges East Asia further off the strategic foundations laid down by America's victory in the Pacific War.

Wavah Broadcasting Company: Red Cross says AIDS is a global disaster 2008-06-27

The report released on Thursday says the AIDS epidermis in Southern Africa is so severe comparerable to floods and famine .

Edmonton Sun: Who will end food for fuel? 2008-06-27

It is also terribly stupid: Mass starvation will create political pressures to make today's problems seem picayune by comparison. So, there's the challenge.

AllAfrica.com: Ethiopia: Urban Poor Cannot Afford To Eat 2008-06-23

Ethiopia, a nation of 80 million people, has been the site of famine and drought throughout its tumultuous history. Arising from a myriad of causes ...

Daily Mail: Mandela versus Mad Bob 2008-06-23

Later, he grabbed white- owned farms and handed them out to cronies, converting a prosperous agricultural economy into an aid- dependent, famine -threatened ...

Mail & Guardian Online: Refugees" scars run deeper than we know 2008-06-23

"These are people who left their original homes, often fleeing wars, famine and persecution. We are trying to help them help each other; this is difficult ...

Publishers Weekly: Nonfiction Reviews 2008-06-23

The author regards Asia and the Middle East as the 21st century"s potential battlegrounds and believes the US and Europe still have a vital role to play ...

Gambling911.com: Charles Barkley at the Poker Table After Pledging to Stop Gambling 2008-06-23

Barkley is on the roster of celebrities to play in a tournament called Ante Up for Africa , the day before the World Series of Poker Main Event starts in L ...