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Ike Survivors May Wait Weeks for Hot Meals, Baths

60 food shelters to open today to meed demand for supplies

Associated Press Associated Press Sep 16, 08 10:28 AM CDT
(AP) - More relief was on the way for Hurricane Ike evacuees today as tens of thousands waited for supplies, the electricity to return to their homes, or their first hot meal and shower. The number of distribution centers was to be quadrupled to 60 by the end of the day to deliver food, water and ice. "A good bath would be nice: have the fire department swing by and spray us down," said one Galveston resident. More »

More about:  Texas • Hurricane Ike • FEMA • Galveston • emergency aid • food aid

 As Darfur Starves,
 Sudan Exports Staples

Exports crops to rich nations, still gets aid

New York Times New York Times Aug 10, 08 12:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - As the UN trucks in food to millions of starving people in Darfur, Sudan is exporting important staple crops to other nations, the New York Times reports. Critics charge the government profits on big agribusiness while receiving more free food in aid than any other nation in the world. But Sudanese officials claim it marks a move away from an oil-based economy toward agricultural self-sufficiency. More »

More about:  United Nations • Sudan • Darfur • agriculture • trade • exports • starvation • food aid

Zimbabwe Seizes Food Aid for Children

20 tons were distributed to Mugabe supporters instead

New York Times New York Times Jun 12, 08 6:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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 »

More about:  Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Zimbabwe elections • food aid

Food vs. Fuel Battle
Flares at UN Summit

Egypt's Mubarak asks, should we be feeding people or cars?

BBC BBC Jun 4, 08 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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 »

More about:  United Nations • food prices • biofuel • ethanol • food shortage • food aid • food production

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

President accused of presiding over  starvation of his nation

BBC BBC Jun 3, 08 3:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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 »

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

 Burma Relief Effort Belies Need 

Junta props up success stories but ignores thousands out of spotlight

Times (UK) Times (UK) May 27, 08 4:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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 »

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

UPDATED

 UN Resumes Food Aid to Burma 

Agency bristles at junta's intervention

Reuters Reuters May 9, 08 10:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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 »

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

North Korea Hands Nuclear Docs to US

Move may show improved relations between the countries

Associated Press Associated Press May 8, 08 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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 »

More about:  Bush administration • North Korea • nuclear program • food aid

 Bush: $770M 
 Needed For Food Aid 

Congress must approve money, part of a larger Iraq funding measure

Reuters Reuters May 1, 08 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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 »

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

UN May Cut
Aid During Hunger Crisis

Rising food costs
force agency to
rethink relief plan

Financial Times (UK) Financial Times (UK) Feb 25, 08 6:54 PM CST
(Newser) - 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 »

More about:  United Nations • food aid • World Food Programme

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