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The global food crisis has prompted various rich countries to start buying up land in the poorer world to secure their food supplies. As well as affecting domestic food supplies in the countries affected, Sue Branford says it...
ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Talks to end months of the political turmoil in Madagascar ended here early Saturday with leaders of the major four political parties agreeing to settle the power share-out ahead of presidential...
State Dept. Confirms Concerns That Militants Will Intercept Food Shipments Prompted Temporary Suspension (AP) The United Nations says it's running out of food for millions of starving Somalis in part because the United States...
by Ben Ochieng NAIROBI, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- The UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has launched a campaign in the Kenyan capital Nairobi to mobilize people around the world to take part in a drive to stop the pandemic of...
NAIROBI, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- The UN refugee agency is appealing for 2.8 million U.S. dollars to provide essential supplies and respond to possible disease outbreaks among more than 300,000 refugees in two camps in Kenya...
Kenya is to conduct a survey of gays in an attempt to control the spread of HIV. Confronted by growing evidence that sex between men is a significant driver of new HIV infections, the Kenyan government has shed a long-time...
by Muhammad Yamany, Zhang Lin SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazef will open the third Conference of Chinese and African Entrepreneurs in Egyptian Red Sea...
The International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, ended a crucial visit to Kenya Saturday detailing his plan to speedily investigate and then prosecute the top suspects of the nation's post-election...
Chinese navy supply ship Qiandaohu escorts merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia. The ship was part of China's third fleet assigned to protect merchant vessels from pirates in the Gulf of Aden. The fleet...
