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  • June 2008

    • Zimbabwe Seizes Food Aid for Children

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 12, 08 6:12 AM CDT

      Zimbabwe Seizes Food Aid for Children

      Authorities in Zimbabwe seized a truck containing 20 tons of American food aid intended for poor schoolchildren, the New York Times reports, and distributed the wheat and beans instead to supporters of Robert Mugabe at a political rally. After last week's suspension of all humanitarian aid, the seizure of the American supplies, intended to provide lunches at 26 schools, has provoked fresh outrage. More »

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      Zimbabwe  • Robert Mugabe  • Zimbabwe elections  • food aid

    • Food vs. Fuel Battle Flares at UN Summit

      newser  |  BBC  |  Jun 4, 08 10:57 AM CDT

      Food vs. Fuel Battle Flares at UN Summit

      The battle over biofuels is raging at the UN’s food summit in Rome, with nations bitterly divided over whether growing corn and sugar cane for ethanol production is pushing food prices up and helping create disastrous global food shortages. On one side: Food experts who call diversion of crops to fill the fuel tanks of wealthy nations immoral. On the other: the US, Brazil, and the EU, the main players on the biofuel stage. More »

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      United Nations  • food prices  • biofuel  • ethanol  • food shortage  • food aid  • food production

    • Leaders Rip Mugabe's 'Obscene' Trip to Food Talks

      newser  |  BBC  |  Jun 3, 08 3:06 AM CDT

      Leaders Rip Mugabe's 'Obscene' Trip to Food Talks

      British and Australian ministers have blasted Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's attendance at a world food summit in Rome, charging him with turning his nation from the breadbasket of Africa into a country plagued by food shortages, reports the BBC. They also criticized him for using food aid given to ZImbabwe to further his own political goals. More »

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      United Nations  • Zimbabwe  • Robert Mugabe  • food shortage  • World Food Program  • food aid

  • May 2008

    • Burma Relief Effort Belies Need

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  May 27, 08 4:48 PM CDT

      Burma Relief Effort Belies Need

      Burma's junta would have one believe it's got the situation under control in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, and even has a test-case diorama as evidence for foreign envoys, the Times of London reports. Sinkan refugee camp hosts 180 well-fed, healthy inhabitants in clean blue tents—while 10 minutes down the road, destitution, sickness and homelessness are everywhere. More »

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      Burma  • Myanmar  • Cyclone Nargis  • junta  • military junta  • refugee camp  • dictatorship  • food aid

    • UN Resumes Food Aid to Burma

      newser  |  Reuters  |  May 9, 08 10:59 AM CDT

      UN Resumes Food Aid to Burma

      The UN World Food Program reversed its decision to cut off food shipments to cyclone-stricken Burma, Reuters reports. The WFP had stopped the flow of aid this morning after the junta confiscated a two-plane food shipment. Nonetheless, "discussions continue with the government of Myanmar on the distribution of the food that was flown in today and not released to WFP," said WFP’s communications director. More »

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      Burma  • Myanmar  • Cyclone Nargis  • cyclone  • junta  • military junta  • World Food Program  • food aid

    • North Korea Hands Nuclear Docs to US

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 8, 08 2:12 PM CDT

      North Korea Hands Nuclear Docs to US

      Seeming to move closer to US demands for information, North Korea handed key documents on its nuclear weapons program to an American diplomat today, the AP reports. The records provide information on the North’s silenced plutonium reactor, and would allow American officials to fact-check a still-awaited summary of the country’s nuclear workings. More »

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      Bush administration  • North Korea  • nuclear program  • food aid

    • Bush: $770M Needed For Food Aid

      newser  |  Reuters  |  May 1, 08 3:40 PM CDT

      Bush: $770M Needed For Food Aid

      Amid rising food prices and overtaxed international reserves, President Bush proposed a new $770 million aid package today, Reuters reports. The money is part of a supplemental $70 billion measure that also includes Iraq war funding and would require a vote in Congress. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Congress  • food prices  • food shortage  • food aid  • food supply  • press conference

  • February 2008

    • UN May Cut Aid During Hunger Crisis

      newser  |  Financial Times (UK)  |  Feb 25, 08 6:54 PM CST

      UN May Cut Aid During Hunger Crisis

      A UN hunger relief agency is in crisis talks today over concerns that it has to slash worldwide aid, the Financial Times reports. Officials at the World Food Programme said today that rising food prices are forcing up their budget by millions of dollars per week. “Our ability to reach people is going down just as the needs go up,” said Executive Director Josette Sheeran. More »

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      United Nations  • food aid  • World Food Programme

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