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African governments trying to help their populations cope with rising food prices should carefully target measures to help poor families and avoid waste, IMF Managing Director Dominique...
Rising global oil and food prices, although a serious developmental challenge, may be an opportunity for poor nations to increase crop production for bio-fuels and food, Zambia's vice president...
Ghana is halving government spending on cars, computers, carpets and other "luxuries" as the West African nation struggles with escalating costs due to high oil and food prices, the deputy finance...
Address by the Minister of Social Development, Dr Zola Skweyiya, to the International Schools of Social Work Congress, Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, Durban.
The Group of Eight summit had produced a great deal of talk, but fell badly short on measurable and practical commitments, Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane said on Thursday.
"We expected this...
The main militant group in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta said on Thursday it was abandoning a ceasefire, in protest at a British offer to help tackle lawlessness in the region.
Prime...
World leaders head into the second day of the annual G8 summit preoccupied by soaring food and oil prices and deeply divided over how to tackle climate change.
Senior officials from the Group of...