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  • In demand: Ethiopia's farmlands (Today) 23 Nov 2009 07:42 GMT
    ... Warmest hospitality." This impoverished and chronically food-insecure Horn of Africa nation is rapidly becoming one of the ... grim, calculation. As one Saudi-backed businessman in Ethiopia put it, "The population of the world ...

  • Oxfam calls for radical shake-up of aid system to break cycle of hunger in Ethiopia [press release] 23 Nov 2009 23:50 GMT
    ... the world deals with food crises in Ethiopia and beyond. The agency rounded on what ... Today, millions in Ethiopia and across East Africa are facing severe food and water shortages ... drought driven disaster in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. Food aid offers temporary relief and ...

  • Aid workers in Somalia moved to Kenya town 23 Nov 2009 22:18 GMT
    ... The group is fighting government troops and African Union peacekeepers to impose its own version ... spreading fast in the south of the Horn of Africa nation. Shebaab seized control of the ... three-year insurgency and a prolonged dry spell, Somalia is struggling with one of the world’s ...

  • Untold African stories an Ethiopian perspective 23 Nov 2009 07:41 GMT
    ... daughter’s purse! Am I the only modern African woman who is thinking this way? Or ... the songs I used to hear about Ethiopia’s greens. Uganda is a very green country ... in the Program of Action of the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) ...

  • UN children's convention at 20: Indian boy embodies the plight of millions of downtrodden kids 23 Nov 2009 15:12 GMT
    ... the lucky ones. Twenty years after the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of ... every country except the United States and Somalia, calls on nations to protect children from abuse ... by a concerted government effort. In South Africa, some children infected with HIV are getting ...

  • Meeting of the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDa) / Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Africa's Resp 23 Nov 2009 20:30 GMT
    ... The African Development Bank is hosting a meeting of ... Mr. Abdoulie Janneh, USG and Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa; Mr. Walter Fust, ... Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The launch ceremony was chaired by H.E. Mr. ...

  • UN Urges Help For 1 Billion Deprived Children 23 Nov 2009 07:11 GMT
    ... UN Urges Help For 1 Billion Deprived Children ... Only two nations, the United States and Somalia, have not ratified it. Still, much remains to be ... clothing, clean water or sanitation. Children in Africa and Asia suffer the worst, Veneman said. "More ...

  • Queen's Speech debate 2009 23 Nov 2009 17:54 GMT
    ... – look much worse. With respect to Africa, in the last year we have seen ... Sharif and the inclusive nature of the Djibouti process. This is important because stability in ... has severe implications not just for the Horn of Africa but for the rest of the world ...

  • We think we've got problems - Greece has a backlog of 30,000 refugees 23 Nov 2009 08:57 GMT
    ... a special destination doesn’t seem to resonate. United Nations Commission on Human Rights ( UNCHR) says ... from the Middle East, Asia and the horn of Africa. The EU’s border-monitoring agency, Frontex, reports a ...

  • Terror Charges Unsealed in Minneapolis Against Eight Men, Justice Department Announces 23 Nov 2009 21:51 GMT
    ... financial support to those who traveled to Somalia to fight on behalf of al-Shabaab, a ... of them ultimately fought with al-Shabaab against Ethiopian forces, African Union troops, and the internationally-supported Transitional Federal ...

  • Terror Charges Unsealed in Minneapolis Against Eight Men, Justice Department Announces (PRN) 23 Nov 2009 21:54 GMT
    ... fight on behalf of extremist groups in Somalia. Four of these defendants have previously pleaded ... of them ultimately fought with al-Shabaab against Ethiopian forces, troops, and the internationally-supported Transitional Federal ... young ethnic Somalis from Somalia, elsewhere in Africa, Europe and the United States. Purportedly, the ...

  • Kufuor Returns From Two-Week Tour 23 Nov 2009 13:27 GMT
    ... His trip took him to Spain, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya and Italy. According to a statement signed ... of good governance and dedicated service to Africa. "In Nigeria, he also addressed the annual ... Mr. Kufuor was on assignment for the United Nations World Food Programme in his capacity as ...

  • People First, Turning Words Into Action [opinion] 23 Nov 2009 22:01 GMT
    ... many areas of the world - the African continent, for example - it is the ... committed to since the mid-1980s, beginning with Somalia, and which has involved us recently at the United Nations: female genital mutilation. In addition to launching, ...

  • Country Wins Praise Over Food Security 23 Nov 2009 10:00 GMT
    ... successful example of a green revolution in Africa. Besides Tanzania, it is the only other ... on behalf of smallholder farmers," said former United Nations secretary-general Kofi A Annan, chairman of Agra. ... the world to support agriculture." Malawi, Mali, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Nigeria are other countries that have ...

  • The Almanac - Nov. 23 23 Nov 2009 14:12 GMT
    ... signed legislation repealing U.S. sanctions against South Africa. In 1996, a hijacker forced an Ethiopian jetliner to fly until it ran out of ... 2005, John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, warned the United Nations that unless steps ...


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