World Hunger Notes-- World Hunger News February 17-March 3 2008

World Hunger News March 4 to March 18, 2008

The articles below were published in Hunger Notes between March 4 and March 18, 2008 and are now on the Hunger Notes front page, www.worldhunger.org.

Africa
Attacks in Kenya 'meticulously' organized, Human Rights Watch says
Food aid hard to get to Darfur due to security situation: more than 50 trucks have been highjacked in last 12 months with many drivers still missing
Sudan and Chad strike peace deal (again)
Sudan warns west of 'Iraq-style disaster' in Darfur
AFRICOM to focus on military, not humanitarian role

Asia
Eighty killed in Tibet protests

Global
Food aid for the hungry?

Latin America
Drug trade tyranny on the border: Mexican cartels maintain grasp with weapons, cash and savagery
Brazilians look to regional force to root out death squads
Vigilantes take over Rio shanty towns
Court slows Bolivian reform
Leaders say Colombia crisis over

Poor people and the environment
Earth's future rests on the seeds we save

United States
Department of Homeland Security strains as goals, mandates go unmet
Texans ponder where 'NAFTA superhighway' might take them

Opinion
The new face of hunger Ban Ki-moon