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New wave of food protests
Food prices have the potential to change regimes and the course of history. When Marie Antoinette allegedly said ”Let them eat cake” in 1789, she was wondering why higher bread…
Mozambique awaits intense cyclone’s landfall
Disaster officials and aid agencies are closely monitoring Tropical Cyclone Favio, due to make landfall in flood-drenched Mozambique on Thursday, as it crosses the narrow sea…
Chad increases its defences
With humanitarian groups sounding the alarm about the violence in eastern Chad near Sudan, the Chadian government has sent troops south to neighbouring Central African Republic…
Small-scale farms ‘hijacked by army’
The military has taken control of food production by small-scale farmers in parts of southern Zimbabwe, a rights NGO headed by church leaders claimed recently. The Solidarity…
Diarrhoea epidemic hits Botswana
Botswana is struggling to control a diarrhoea epidemic that has claimed the lives of 470 children since January. "A few adult cases have been reported but mostly children are…