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food aid stories: 16 news summaries

(Newser) - Almost 25 years after Live Aid aimed to eradicate famine in Ethiopia, the country is facing new threats of malnutrition and mass starvation, the Independent reports. Ethiopia's erratic rains are the main culprit, failing to fall or coming too little too late, while recession-minded donors in wealthy nations are also... More »

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climate change • global warming • Ethiopia • famine • Live Aid • food aid • World Food Program

G8 Pledges $20B for Farmers in Poor Countries

In pushing for funds, Obama cites father's experience

Jul 10, 09 10:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - On the last day of a G8 summit stymied on climate change and trade, leaders have pledged $20 billion to farms in poor countries in the fight hunger, Reuters reports. Some $3.5 billion will come from the US, which wants to focus on farm aid instead of food aid.... More »

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international trade • Africa • Kenya • G8 summit • food aid • Obama administration • Barack Obama Sr. • President Obama • L'Aquila • poor countries • farm aid

Somali Pirates Release Togo Ship, Score
$100K Ransom

Tanker was to deliver food aid to Somalia

Apr 20, 09 8:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Somali pirates have released a Togo-flagged cargo ship that was to deliver food aid to their own country, the BBC reports, but only after securing a ransom rumored to be $100,000. “Somali traders were involved in the release,” a pirate source told Reuters. They paid “not... More »

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Somalia • release • pirates • ransom • cargo ships • food aid • Togo

 Somalia Piracy Hampers 
 Food Aid: UN 

Danger of hijacking has raised costs dramatically, WFP official says

Apr 9, 09 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Piracy off the coast of Somalia is making relief organizations' work even more difficult, Reuters reports. The UN’s World Food Program  today decried both the hijacking of ships bearing aid supplies—the Maersk Alabama, for example, had 232 WFP containers on board when it was seized this week—and... More »

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Somalia • United Nations • piracy • shipping container • insurance • shipping • food aid • World Food Program • international aid

Despite Hunger, N. Korea Rejects US Food Aid

Pyongyang boots humanitarian groups ahead of rocket launch

Mar 18, 09 6:48 AM CDT
(AP) - North Korea will reject future US food assistance and kicked out five groups distributing American aid, a move that could make an already precarious humanitarian situation even worse, reports the AP. Pyongyang gave no reason for refusing the aid, according to the State Department. North Korea faces chronic food shortages... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • State Department • famine • Pyongyang • food aid

 UN: Hamas Seized 
 Food, Blankets 

Hamas claims aid was going to opponents

Feb 4, 09 9:45 AM CST
(AP) - Hamas police in Gaza seized thousands of blankets and food parcels meant for needy residents, the AP reports, threatening to fracture relations between the international agency that cares for most of Gaza's residents and the territory's militant rulers. A UN spokesman called the incident "absolutely unacceptable." More »

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United Nations • Gaza • Hamas • food aid • humanitarian aid • United Nations Relief and Works Agency

Ike Survivors May Wait Weeks for Hot Meals, Baths

60 food shelters to open today to meed demand for supplies

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... More »

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Texas • FEMA • Galveston • food aid • emergency aid • Hurricane Ike

 As Darfur Starves,
 Sudan Exports Staples

Exports crops to rich nations, still gets aid

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.... More »

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United Nations • agriculture • Darfur • Sudan • trade • exports • starvation • malnutrition • food aid

Zimbabwe Seizes Food Aid for Children

20 tons were distributed to Mugabe supporters instead

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... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • food aid • Zimbabwe elections

Food vs. Fuel Battle
Flares at UN Summit

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

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... More »

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

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

President accused of presiding over  starvation of his nation

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... More »

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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

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... More »

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

UPDATED

 UN Resumes Food Aid to Burma 

Agency bristles at junta's intervention

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... More »

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

North Korea Hands Nuclear Docs to US

Move may show improved relations between the countries

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... More »

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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

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 »

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

UN May Cut
Aid During Hunger Crisis

Rising food costs
force agency to
rethink relief plan

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... More »

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United Nations • food aid • World Food Program

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