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Food crisis crosses globe 12 May 2008 06:15 GMT
... 100 million people deeper into poverty. Philippines: Government says it will issue "rice access cards" ... percent wage increase for all government employees. Burkina Faso: Officials eliminate duties and taxes on ... least seven dead and force the prime minister from office. Dominican Republic: Sends 30 trucks ...
Responses to food crisis 12 May 2008 04:27 GMT
... have taken to prevent unrest. * PHILIPPINES: Government says it will issue "rice access cards" ... wage increase for all government employees. * BURKINA FASO: Officials eliminate duties and taxes on ... least seven dead and force the prime minister from office. * DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Sends 30 ...
High food prices, election violence take a toll in Kenya 11 May 2008 07:47 GMT
... buy foodstuff that we can afford." Kenya's political violence after its disputed presidential election in ... violent demonstrations have broken out in Senegal, Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire. Five people died in ... 4 percent. Making matters worse for consumers, government officials suspect that Kenyan farmers are hoarding ...
COUNTRIES ACT TO PREVENT UNREST 11 May 2008 07:45 GMT
... governments have taken to prevent unrest. Philippines: Government says it will issue "rice access cards" ... 30-percent wage increase for all government employees. Burkina Faso: Officials eliminate duties and taxes on ... least seven dead and force the prime minister from office. Dominican Republic: Sends 30 trucks ...
Behind the food riots: a debate on how best to farm 11 May 2008 06:36 GMT
... broken out from Bangladesh to Egypt to Burkina Faso. In Haiti, they cost the prime minister his job. At least 34 countries have ... and that's unfair to us," said Thai government spokesman Vichienchot Sukchokrat. But Robert Zeigler, who ...

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World Food Glimmers of Hope'>World Food Glimmers of Hope 11 May 2008 04:32 GMT
... 1979, with food riots. In Cote d�Ivoire, political leaders told me how they worry that ... they are so close to success. In Burkina Faso, the president told me how desperately the ... Visiting a primary school under construction in Ouagadougou, I told the children how I grew ...
A look at responses to food crisis 10 May 2008 18:55 GMT
... governments have taken to prevent unrest. PHILIPPINES: Government says it will issue ''rice access cards'' ... percent wage increase for all government employees. BURKINA FASO: Officials eliminate duties and taxes on ... least seven dead and force the prime minister from office. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Sends 30 trucks ...
Hundreds turn out for second day of food protests in Somalia 10 May 2008 10:36 GMT
... accept the decision," said Abas Mohamed Duale, deputy chairman of the union. Protests and riots ... other nations, including Haiti, Egypt, Cameroon and Burkina Faso. The price of rice and other ... currency." Somalia has been without a functioning government since the 1991 overthrow of dictator Siad ...
Burkina Faso: Fresh Approach to Street Children 10 May 2008 04:43 GMT
... in the streets of urban areas in Burkina Faso, the government and several non-governmental organisations are coming up ... the children's national action plan at the ministry of social welfare, told IRIN. In 2007 ...