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Central Africa | West Africa
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Maize research splendid investment for Africa

afrol News, 3 November - A new book looking at the history and effect on maize research in West and Central Africa reveals it is among the best spent funds to achieve poverty reduction. Every million US$ spent on maize research had lifted 35,000 Africans out of poverty, it claims.

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Ethiopia needs urgent food aid

afrol News, 22 October - Ethiopia has appealed for emergency food aid for 6.2 million people following five year drought that has ravaged poor communities in the Horn of Africa.

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Horn of Africa | Kenya
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WFP appeals for urgent assistance for Kenya

afrol News, 25 August - The World Food Programme (WFP) has today appealed for more than US$230 million to provide emergency food assistance over the next six months to 3.8 million Kenyans affected by deepening drought and continued high food prices.

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Fish killing fungus could spread to other part of Africa – FAO

afrol News, 22 July - The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation has warned that the disease killing fish in Africa’s Zambezi River basin and already devastating lives of thousands could spread to other parts of the continent.

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Hotter Africa states may lose maize by 2050

afrol News / SciDev.Net, 9 July - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report has revealed that six of Africa’s regions will be unable to grow maize by 2050 as growing seasons get hotter that normal even if the carbon emissions are dramatically reduced.

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» 22.06.2009 - UK offers more help to Zim, but not direct to government
» 18.06.2009 - Agriculture still first against global downturn
» 17.06.2009 - UN probes stolen aid in Somalia
» 15.06.2009 - 40 killed in weekend clashes in South Sudan
» 11.06.2009 - Economic meltdown threatens progress in fight against hunger
» 08.06.2009 - Local farmers sign US grant deals
» 19.05.2009 - EU awards €54 million to Horn of Africa
» 12.05.2009 - Global agencies call for more investment in life-saving vitamins and minerals
» 08.05.2009 - UNICEF warns Horn of Africa’s children at risk from triple threat
» 26.03.2009 - Senegal gets $3.7 million for food security
» 25.03.2009 - Over a million will go without food rations by May - UN says
» 19.03.2009 - WFP to scale up aid in Kenya
» 18.03.2009 - UN send mission to assess Sahrawi refugees situation
» 16.02.2009 - WFP launches first food voucher programme in Africa
» 01.12.2008 - Global crisis presents a double threat to the poor, report says
» 01.12.2008 - Milk products in Tanzania declared safe
» 17.11.2008 - African symposium focus on women's role in agriculture
» 23.10.2008 - Somali's internal refugees increased
» 22.10.2008 - Somali children given first priority in crisis food distribution
» 13.10.2008 - Confusing and competing figures could starve Ethiopians
» 09.10.2008 - Major food appeal for Zimbabwe flighted
» 26.09.2008 - Burkina Faso bans all Chinese dairy products
» 25.09.2008 - WFP welcomes private sector partnership to feed world's poor children
» 23.09.2008 - UK announces £42 million for Horn of Africa
» 17.09.2008 - Red Cross resumes aid distribution in Zim
» 12.09.2008 - Aid appeal launched for Ethiopia
» 29.07.2008 - Increasing child malnutrition in Mauritania
» 22.07.2008 - Ethiopia needs urgent funding to avert severe food crisis
» 08.07.2008 - Ethiopia secures £20 million to curb food crisis
» 27.06.2008 - More funds for Cape Verde's rural poor
» 13.06.2008 - Seeds distributed in Mauritania to meet food crisis
» 10.06.2008 - 2 million Malawi children targeted for vitamin 'A' supplement
» 04.06.2008 - Africa assured food security
» 15.04.2008 - Food crisis concerns World Bank President
» 19.10.2007 - Malnutrition, cholera bite DRC's war-ravaged community
» 18.10.2007 - Big boost for Lesotho nutrition
» 18.10.2007 - Big boost for Lesotho nutrition
» 22.08.2007 - Boom for Malawian HIV-affected fish farmers
» 04.01.2007 - 55% of Swazi women are overweight
» 15.11.2006 - Guinea-Bissau's cashew crops rot as prices plummet
» 03.02.2006 - "Dog food" offer for hungry children insults Kenya
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» 06.10.2004 - Fast food causing obesity and diabetes in Swaziland
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