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Rice prices in Thailand, the world's top exporter, surged to $1,000 (500 pounds) a tonne on Thursday as concerns about food security first triggered by a handful of Asian export bans spread as...
Nordic countries are willing to grant Zimbabwe an aid package to help its declining economy if it shows democratic credentials, Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday....
President George W. Bush on Monday ordered the release of $200 million (100 million pounds) in U.S. emergency food aid to help alleviate food shortages in developing countries in Africa and...
JOHANNESBURG – A new study, by the Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa , claims that Aids is having a politically costly effect on a number of fledgling democracies in...
Forty aid agencies urged the world on Wednesday to focus attention on Somalia's "catastrophic" humanitarian crisis where hundreds of thousands of people are suffering from war,...
The sooner Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf accepts the verdict of the people and steps down the better it will be for him, Musharraf's old foe, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, said on...
Floods in southern Africa have displaced thousands of people, drowned livestock and put large numbers of children at risk from life-threatening diseases, officials said on Tuesday.
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In this podcast: African Heads of State, including Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, will be invited to attend the European Union/Africa summit later this year;
Ernest Bai Koroma wins the tense Sierra...