Africa’s newest state struggles to find balance while securing its identity.
When the world’s leaders meet at the next G20 Summit, they’ll arrive with one issue already agreed: the need to re-write international tax rules.
Biofuel producers have taken over land around the world that could feed nearly one billion people, says international charity Oxfam.
With Congo’s army diverted to eastern Congo, new militia groups have arisen as older ones reassert themselves, killing hundreds of civilians.
Despite the biggest UN operation ever, large numbers of people are being killed and displaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The delayed reaction to last year’s drought crisis in East Africa exacerbated the heavy loss of lives.
United Nations figures show that only $2.38-billion of $4.5-billion pledged has been sent to Haiti where a 2010 earthquake killed 300 000 people.
African countries ought to do more for the people affected by famine in the Horn of Africa, says international aid group Oxfam.
The UN has formally declared parts of Somalia to be in the grip of famine, a move hailed by rebels who now say they will allow aid to be distributed.
The production of maize, a staple for millions of South Africans, is predicted to plummet by 35% by 2030.
Oxfam’s money transfer scheme in Malawi gives vulnerable citizens access to basic foodstuffs. The NGO’s <b>Nicole Johnston</b> visits the country.
The European Union nearly doubled its aid to flood-stricken Pakistan to €70-million on Wednesday.
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/ 14 December 2009
A UN-backed military operation to oust rebels from eastern Congo has caused more civilian casualties than damage to rebels, rights groups said.
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/ 19 November 2009
The look on Mame Couma Tandjigora’s face tells the story. She scowls, as many in her country might when asked about locally grown rice.
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/ 29 September 2009
Drought for a fifth year running is driving more than 23-million east Africans towards severe hunger and destitution, Oxfam said on Tuesday.
A UN-backed military operation in eastern Congo is likely to cause widespread suffering for thousands of civilians, warns aid agency Oxfam.
Fears were mounting on Friday of a new humanitarian disaster in Darfur after Sudan ordered the expulsion of aid agencies.
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/ 13 November 2008
Michel became a child soldier after he left his house in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to get some milk and never returned.
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/ 9 September 2008
The M2 Coffee Shop’s Grade 10 Autumn Academy this year unpacked the global skills shortage by highlighting some frightening worldwide statistics.
Aid agency Oxfam on Monday joined the call against the closure of camps sheltering people displaced by xenophobic violence.
Changing weather patterns in Uganda have wreaked havoc on the country, writes Warren Foster.
G8 leaders sat down to lunch at a hotel with African heads of state on Monday as activists accused the rich nations’ club of backpedalling on pledges.
South African authorities on Sunday began transferring busloads of immigrants who have been sheltering in police stations from a wave of xenophobic attacks to organised tent camps, officials said. A total of 10 camps are due to be built in the next few weeks to house up to 10Â 000 foreign nationals who have been forced out of their homes.
Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta on Sunday in search of food, water and medicine as aid groups said thousands more people will die if emergency supplies do not get through soon. Buddhist temples and high schools in towns on the outskirts of Nargis’s trail of destruction are now makeshift refugee centres.
Up to 70 people were killed in late March when flash floods swept mining pits in northern Tanzania, charity group Oxfam-Ireland said on Monday. ”The rains caused flooding of eight mines in the region, killing up to 70 mineworkers caught below ground,” it said in a statement.
International aid agencies on Saturday called for emergency food programmes to be overhauled as the soaring price of grain and other staple crops threatens to bring further misery to many parts of the developing world. The call came after it emerged that the United States is to slash the amount of food aid it gives to some of the poorest countries in the world.
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/ 19 January 2008
Thousands of people in Mozambique were still trapped in their homes by rising flood waters on Friday as heavy rains continued to pound Southern Africa, heightening fears of a particularly severe flood season. In Zambia, a Care worker said water levels in the south were twice as high as the same time last year.
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/ 20 November 2007
Urgently needed supplies of food, water and medicine were on Tuesday nearing people in remote areas of Bangladesh where a devastating cyclone has left millions homeless and thousands dead. With roads now cleared of hundreds of trees that had blocked aid convoys, officials said relief was finally starting to get through to the most inaccessible areas.
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/ 19 November 2007
Soldiers and relief workers raced on Monday to get aid to millions left destitute by the cyclone in Bangladesh, where the official death toll has topped 3 100 and is certain to rise. Untold numbers of survivors were in urgent need of food and water in the south, one of the poorest areas of the world.
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/ 6 November 2007
Europe’s trade chief accused Nigeria and South Africa on Monday of trying to block negotiations for new trade and investment deals between the European Union and scores of former colonies. The EU wants to sign new Economic Partnership Agreements with nearly 80 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries before December 31.
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/ 27 September 2007
Relief agency World Vision has scaled back its operations in South Darfur after its staff suffered three attacks within a week, an agency official said on Thursday. ”World Vision has not suspended operations — we have scaled down,” Michael Arunga, communications manager for World Vision, told Reuters. ”There have been three attacks in one week.”
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/ 25 September 2007
Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim said on Tuesday he will carry on fighting during upcoming peace talks until a final settlement is reached to end the conflict in western Sudan. Ibrahim also said he is dismissing his deputy, accusing him of secret meetings with the government to undermine the movement.