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The African solution is not aid but self-reliance

Monday, March 16, 2009

Editor, Countries in developing world want to emerge from a state of obscurity to a state of prominence. For this to be achieved within the...

Millions face starvation and disease as aid agencies are expelled from Darfur

Friday, March 06, 2009

More than two million people in Darfur face the risk of starvation and disease following yesterday's decision by the Sudanese government to expel...

ZIMBABWE: Hunger begins to take its toll

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Five children have died in Zimbabwe’s southern drought-prone Masvingo province from severe malnutrition-related illnesses, according to members of a...

UGANDA: Starvation risk to 1m in northeast

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

More than a million people are at risk of starvation in Uganda's semi-arid and remote northeastern regions and over 40,000 children are suffering...

ETHIOPIA: Soaring malnutrition hits children hardest

IRIN NEWS http://irinnews.org

Monday, June 02, 2008

Genetu Dekebo's children were on the verge of starvation at the time she decided to seek treatment at Rophi therapeutic feeding centre in southern...

ZIMBABWE: Prisoners routinely dying from starvation, illness

IRIN

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Two former inmates have described to IRIN the horrendous conditions prevailing in Zimbabwes prison system, where prisoners routinely die from illness...