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- Sunday 6 May 2012
May 5, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, is one among the few African leaders invited by US president Barack Obama to attend the upcoming G8 summit on African food security. US President Barack Obama (L) with (...)
- Monday 4 June 2012
June 3, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A political group from eastern Sudan has warned that the government’s decision to suspend activities of seven foreign aid groups is rendering the already impoverished region on “the verge of famine.” Photo of a (...)
- Friday 3 May 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
May 2, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – A new report released on Thursday revealed that 258,000 people died in Somalia during a severe famine that hit the East African nation between 2010 and 2012. A Somalian child eats gruel (...)
- Monday 30 July 2012
By Julius N. Uma
July 29, 2012 (JUBA) - More than 16 million people, in six African nations, are currently facing food shortages, that range from stressed to emergency levels of food insecurity, a recent report from Famine Early (...)
- Friday 8 February 2013
February 6, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan on Wednesday made an emergency appeal in order to avert a looming hunger crisis in Eastern Equatoria state, saying lack of food items has forced villagers there to sell their livestock amid reports (...)
- Thursday 15 March 2012
March 14, 2012 (WASHINGTON) – A United States (US) official will travel to the Middle East in the coming weeks to seek the help of governments there in pressing Khartoum to allow humanitarian aid to be delivered to rebel-held areas in (...)
- Friday 16 March 2012
March 15, 2012 (JUBA) — A United Nations special envoy on Thursday
warned of the possibility of “large scale humanitarian crisis” in the
word’s newest nation, unless resources are mobilized to ensure
protection and safety of children (...)
- Tuesday 6 March 2012
March 5, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government threatened on Monday to expel the United States (US) diplomatic mission if Washington continues to propagate claims of famine in the country’s war hit regions of South Kordofan and Blue (...)
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