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ADDIS ABABA, 24 November 2009 (IRIN) - The Ethiopian government has vehemently rejected accusations that it has excluded some opposition supporters from a food-for-work programme, charges that are the focus of growing international concern in the run-up to elections in 2010.
The food, fuel, and financial crises have pushed the numbers of those enduring chronic hunger past one billion people for the first time in history. So as we enter the season of colossal Wall Street bonuses and a frenzy of holiday spending, it's time for us to share the privilege of plenty. It's time to declare, once and for all, that not a single child should die from hunger. This is an ...
500 residents of different faiths, races and ethnicity meet in Kent to share food, foster community spirit Attendees socialize at monthly gathering
Agribusiness and global investors are scooping up farmland. Are corporate farmers the new colonialists?
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. will increase inspections of food aid deliveries to Ethiopians after complaints by members of the country’s opposition that its members are routinely denied access to foreign aid, a U.S. State Department official said.
Bones dug up in eastern Africa date back to some of the oldest remnants of human beings and other species, and although we...
With arugula straight from his garden and entertainment by two Oscar winners, President Barack Obama took a fresh take on the state dinner in Washington's top social event since his inauguration.
GRINNELL — Former Israeli Ambassador Asher Naim will describe his role in the 1991 Operation Solomon on Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center on the Grinnell College campus.
Stephen M. Winter, MD, of Ridgefield recently helped move 1,980 pounds of mosquito nets with supporting medical supplies by helicopter, river launch and canoes to remote villages of the upper Amazon.
The gunfire outside does not disturb them as they speak, explaining what led them to leave behind their lives as Islamist fighters and defect to the side of Somalia's weak transitional government.
Our last two columns have taken a look at the role of agricultural policy in increasing food security and thus reducing the number of people who experience chronic hunger in developing countries. In our survey, we have identified policies that have had the effect of reducing the level of food security for many consumers and small-scale agriculturalists and pastoralists in developing countries.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Bourse Africa, a unit of Financial Technologies India Ltd. , plans to set up an electronic exchange to trade African commodities futures by the second half of next year, Director of Strategy Adam Gross said.
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A Brainerd area businesswoman started her business to raise airfare to Ethiopia, but the trip created an inspiration to do even more.
Barack Obama threw the biggest party of his presidency for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, hailing the world's largest democracy as "indispensable" and pledging to work out a range of thorny issues.
GB00B02WHQ80/GBP/PLUS-exn 24/11//2009 Sheba Exploration (UK) Plc Operational Report 35: gold sample results from Shehagne, northern Ethiopia Sheba Exploration (UK) Plc, the Plus-quoted gold and base metals explorer in Ethiopia, is pleased to announce further gold intersections from channel samples taken by Stratex International Plc at its Shehagne Exclusive Exploration Licence in northern ...
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