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afrol News, 24 July - UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is providing assistance to Swaziland farmers to boost agricultural production for enhanced food security for next cropping season.

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Ethiopia
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Ethiopia needs urgent funding to avert severe food crisis

afrol News, 22 July - UN World Food Programme has appealed for US $222 million to avert a major food crisis in Ethiopia, where millions are struggling to cope due to severe drought and hiking food prices that struck East African country in recent months.

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Kenya
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Kenyan forces accused of blocking aid

afrol News, 21 July - An international humanitarian agency has accused Kenyan security forces today for blocking aid workers in the country's remote Mt Elgon district, where conflict between armed forces and militia has severely affected civilians.

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Africa | World
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EU proposes emergency fund for Africa

afrol News, 18 July - European Union has today proposed a US$ 1.6 billion two-year emergency fund to help poor African countries that were worst hit by global food crisis.

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Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe inflation hits record level

afrol News, 16 July - Zimbabwe's annual rate of inflation has reached a new record high, registering 2.2 million percent, the Southern African country's Central Bank Governor has confirmed.

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» 16.07.2008 - Tanzania sugar prepares for global market
» 15.07.2008 - Deteriorating security worrying in Somalia
» 11.07.2008 - ONLF accuses Ethiopia of blocking aid
» 09.07.2008 - Fourth WFP driver killed in Somalia
» 08.07.2008 - SA to top maize exports, but...
» 08.07.2008 - Fresh fighting deepens Chad's food insecurity
» 08.07.2008 - Ethiopia secures £20 million to curb food crisis
» 04.07.2008 - Hope for African banana farmers
» 27.06.2008 - More funds for Cape Verde's rural poor
» 27.06.2008 - Africa's green revolution needs sound policies
» 24.06.2008 - Improved food security for SADC this year
» 23.06.2008 - Mauritania seeks to avoid global hikes' shocks
» 19.06.2008 - Africa's agric produce compromised
» 16.06.2008 - Floods kill 6 in Somalia
» 13.06.2008 - Millions face starvation in Ethiopia
» 13.06.2008 - East African budgets to ease food crisis
» 13.06.2008 - Seeds distributed in Mauritania to meet food crisis
» 09.06.2008 - "Food insecurity risks" in Guinea
» 05.06.2008 - Food aid distributed in Guinea-Bissau
» 05.06.2008 - 'Acute malnutrition exaggerated' - Ethiopia officials
» 04.06.2008 - Zimbabwean police detains Tsvangirai
» 04.06.2008 - IMF hails Gambia's economic stability
» 04.06.2008 - Africa assured food security
» 03.06.2008 - Madagascar President seeks Green Revolution
» 02.06.2008 - Four arrested in Nairobi food protests
» 30.05.2008 - Coalition launched to double Africa's rice production
» 30.05.2008 - TICAD IV "falls short of expectations"
» 30.05.2008 - Zim opposition scorns govt maize purchase
» 30.05.2008 - Mutant wheat aiding Kenya food security
» 30.05.2008 - World Bank set aside US $ 1.2bn to fight hiking food prices
» 29.05.2008 - Food prices crisis reaches Seychelles
» 28.05.2008 - Japan offers Africa more aid
» 28.05.2008 - IMF presents recipe to address food price shocks
» 23.05.2008 - Mauritania "does enough" to meet food crisis
» 21.05.2008 - Ecowas Bank offers $1 billion to contain regional food crisis
» 19.05.2008 - 'Bio-fuels don't harm crops'
» 15.05.2008 - Sahrawi refugee children in dire need of food
» 12.05.2008 - Zim settles $700 million debt
» 09.05.2008 - 'Embrace green revolution'
» 28.04.2008 - India exports rice to Senegal
» 23.04.2008 - Global food crisis: "silent tsunami"
» 22.04.2008 - Food crisis alerted in West Africa
» 22.04.2008 - Fungus destroys Kenya rice
» 18.04.2008 - Locusts storm Ethiopia
» 15.04.2008 - Food crisis concerns World Bank President
» 14.04.2008 - Ethiopia opens commodity exchange
» 10.04.2008 - More UN truckers killed
» 08.04.2008 - Surge in prices worries UN
» 31.03.2008 - No pardon for Chiluba
» 26.03.2008 - Mugabe threatens investors
» 26.03.2008 - WFP truckers killed in Sudan
» 19.03.2008 - Serious flaws mar Zim polls
» 14.03.2008 - Makeba meets rape survivors
» 20.02.2008 - African NGOs call for moratorium on biofuels
» 07.02.2008 - WA signals food insecurity
» 21.12.2007 - African climate change: Blooming Sahara or hunger and war?
» 07.12.2007 - Locusts threaten Kenya
» 15.11.2007 - Gambia hippos destroy crops
» 12.11.2007 - Another blow for EPAs
» 26.10.2007 - Kenya secures food security
» 25.10.2007 - Lesotho launches price subsidy campaign
» 19.10.2007 - Malnutrition, cholera bite DRC's war-ravaged community
» 07.09.2007 - Uganda's food insecurity still fragile
» 06.09.2007 - Tanzania's agriculture receives big boost
» 05.09.2007 - Malawi guarantees food security
» 22.08.2007 - Boom for Malawian HIV-affected fish farmers
» 21.08.2007 - Liberia finalises food security strategy
» 17.07.2007 - US to increase food aid to Zimbabwe
» 11.07.2007 - Zimbabwe: Malawi provides maize lifeline
» 26.06.2007 - Discovery of Darfur underground lake spurs "1000 wells"
» 14.06.2007 - WFP airlifts emergency food to Darfur refugees
» 24.05.2007 - Swaziland faces food crisis
» 08.03.2007 - Drought, floods "threaten Southern Africa food security"
» 22.01.2007 - Shortage of farm workers in Zimbabwe
» 06.12.2006 - Fears of humanitarian crisis as Somali war talk escalates
» 17.11.2006 - Climate: "This is not Kenya as I remember it"
» 15.11.2006 - Guinea-Bissau's cashew crops rot as prices plummet
» 02.11.2006 - "Science ignores Africa's native crops"
» 19.10.2006 - Food security improves in Darfur
» 17.10.2006 - Concern over humanitarian crisis in Congo
» 10.10.2006 - 50% of South African children go to bed hungry
» 06.10.2006 - El Niño returns: Southern Africa droughts in 2007
» 15.09.2006 - EU donates €10 million to Western Sahara refugees
» 11.09.2006 - Guinea-Bissau unable to sell cashew harvest
» 08.09.2006 - Floods in Niger, Burkina Faso affect 26,000
» 05.09.2006 - Mogadishu port reopened for food aid
» 02.06.2006 - Poor donor response to Niger food crisis
» 25.04.2006 - After years of drought, Malawi set for food sufficiency
» 07.04.2006 - UN airdropping food into Congo's Katanga province
» 05.04.2006 - Niger government blocks reporting on hunger
» 05.04.2006 - Attempts to revive Congo Kinshasa's agricultural sector
» 24.03.2006 - Almost 2 million Ethiopians need food aid
» 06.03.2006 - Kenya drought may soon "lead to disaster"
» 07.02.2006 - Malawi's subsidised fertilizer smuggled and embezzled
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