Kenya
Affairs | Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Economy | Elections | Ethnic | Finance | Food Security | Good governance | People | Poverty | Refugees - Displaced | Socio-economic | Violence | War & Peace
'Embrace green revolution'
afrol News, 9 May - The Chairman of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has advised Kenyan farmers to embrace green revolution to counter challenges posed by the soaring food prices and post-electoral violence.
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Senegal
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Law | People | War & Peace
Armed bandits chop off Senegalese villagers' ears
afrol News, 8 May - Senegalese police have opened investigations into an armed attack in the southern province of Cassamance where bandits chop off the left ears of at least 16 villagers in Niaguis, 20 km from the regional capital, Ziguinchor.
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Zambia | Congo Kinshasa
Affairs | Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Ethnic | People | Refugees - Displaced | Violence | War & Peace
More DRC refugees returned
afrol News, 6 May - The repatriation of hundreds of Congolese refugees in Zambia resumed at the weekend, with International Organization for Migration (IOM) facilitating the return of 800 refugees in Zambia's northern provinces. Read more
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Senegal
Affairs | Affairs | Development | Economy | People | Tourism
"Scrap FAO," Wade urges
afrol News, 5 May - Senegalese President Abdoulaye has called for the scrapping of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAS), describing it as an institution that largely spends amounts of resources on doing very little and effective operations. Read more
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Kenya
Affairs | Affairs | Conservation | Crime | Economy | Industry | Law | Livestock | People | Pollution | Water | Wildlife
Tana biofuel could be illegal
afrol News, 5 May - Implementation of plans to grow biofuel crops on an idyllic river plain in Kenya could be illegal if implemented in its current form, arguing that its cost has been underestimated while profit overestimated.
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Kenya
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Elections | Ethnic | People | Refugees - Displaced | Violence | War & Peace
Kenyan victims return home
afrol News, 5 May - Thousands of Kenyans displayed by the post-electoral violence on Monday returned home after spending more several months in camps. Read more
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Senegal
Affairs | Affairs | Famine | Food Security | People | Policy
India exports rice to Senegal
afrol News, 28 April - President Abdoulaye of Senegal has assured his citizens that Indian authorities have agreed to supply 600,000 tonnes of rice annually to the west African country for six years. Like many countries in Africa, rice is a key staple food in Senegal.
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World
Affairs | Affairs | Economy | Food Security | People
Global food crisis: "silent tsunami"
afrol News, 23 April - The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has called for urgent action to tackle the "silent tsunami" of rising food prices that threatens the lives of more than 100 million with throughout the world.
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Affairs | Affairs | Economy | Food Security | Law | People | Policy | Refugees - Displaced | Trade | Violence
Food crisis alerted in West Africa
afrol News, 22 April - Despite the above-average cereal production across much of West Africa during the 2007/08 agricultural season, localized production deficits and above-normal price increases in some areas clearly signal early increases in food insecurity. Read more
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Kenya
Affairs | Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Economy | Elections | Ethnic | Food Security | Violence | War & Peace
Fungus destroys Kenya rice
afrol News, 22 April - Up to 20% of Kenya's annual rice production has been wiped out by a fungus, raising concerns of food insecurity in a country that has been embroiled in deadly political unrest. Read more
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Ethiopia
Affairs | Disasters | Food Security | People
Locusts storm Ethiopia
afrol News, 18 April - Locust breeding and swarms have been reported near Konso and the Rift Valley in southern Ethiopia, despite the increased rainfall over the last week across the country, Food Emergency Warning System alerted.
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Ethiopia
Affairs | Affairs | Economy | Food Security | Law | People
Ethiopia opens commodity exchange
afrol News, 14 April - Plans to open the first-ever commodity exchange in Africa are underway in Ethiopia. The exchange will trade in six commodities: coffee, sesame, haricot beans, teff, wheat and maize. Read more
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Sudan
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Ethnic | Food Security | Law | People | Refugees - Displaced | Violence | War & Peace
More UN truckers killed
afrol News, 10 April - Two more truckers working for the UN food agency, World Food Programme (WFP) had been added to the list of murdered humanitarian workers murdered in South Sudan.
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Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Economy | Famine | Food Security | Law | People | Trade
Surge in prices worries UN
afrol News, 8 April - A global surge in food prices has become a great concern to the United Nations, fearing that it could lead to further tensions across the world, including Africa. Read more
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Zimbabwe
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Diplomacy | Economy | Elections | Land rights | Law | People | Violence
Court can rule on Zimbabwe polls
afrol News, 7 April - A High Court judge on Monday maintained that his court has the jurisdiction to preside over a petition filed by the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) demanding the immediate release of Zimbabwe's recent election results from an official source. Read more
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Zambia
Affairs | Affairs | Corruption | Crime | Economy | Food Security | Law | People
No pardon for Chiluba
afrol News, 31 March - Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa said he will not bow down to several appeals to pardon his predecessor from facing corruption charges. Read more
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Zimbabwe
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Economy | Elections | Expression | Food Security | Law | Oppression | People | Violence
Mugabe threatens investors
afrol News, 26 March - Prices of food in Zimbabwe have shot up ahead of the country's combined elections on 29 March. Believing that the act was part of the white investors' plots to endanger his re-election into office for the sixth time, President Mugabe has swiftly reacted, threatening to force businesses to reduce prices. Read more
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Sudan
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Food Security | Law | People | Refugees - Displaced | Violence
WFP truckers killed in Sudan
afrol News, 26 March - The UN food agency, World Food Programme on Tuesday announced that three
of its contracted truck drivers were shot dead in Sudan's Darfur region. Read more
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Ethiopia
Affairs | Affairs | Economy | Famine | People | Violence
Ethiopia battles food scarcity
afrol News, 20 March - Ethiopia is again facing food scarcity that has put the lives of over eight million Ethiopians at risk, particularly those in the South-West Oromia region where 11 people died of hunger and lack of clean water. Read more
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Zimbabwe
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Elections | Food Security | Law | People | Violence
Serious flaws mar Zim polls
afrol News, 19 March - Zimbabwean government has been accused of undermining any meaningful prospect of free and fair elections on 29 March, Human Rights Watch said, blaming the Mugabe regime of committing "serious electoral flaws and human rights abuses."
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Kenya
Affairs | Affairs | Children | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Diplomacy | Economy | Elections | Ethnic | Infrastructure | Land rights | Law | People | Poverty | Refugees - Displaced | Violence | War & Peace
Kenya MPs begin crucial tasks
afrol News, 18 March - Kenyan deputies have began the crucial tasks of debating and approving bills on constitutional amendments and the formation of a coalition government.
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