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World Hunger News May 3 to May 15, 2008

 

 

The articles below were published in Hunger Notes between May 3 and May 15, 2008 and are now on the Hunger Notes front page, www.worldhunger.org.

See Hunger Notes special report on the world food and hunger crisis

Africa
Sudan cuts Chad ties over attack, blaming Chad for helping rebels from Darfur to launch an attack on Sudan's capital, Khartoum
Kenyan government starts returning people displaced by violence to their homes and land--many still fearful for their safety

Asia
Thousands dead in Chinese quake
Rulers keep grip on aid as Burmese cast votes
100,000 could be dead in Burma, US diplomat says
A lone Tibetan voice, intent on speaking out: writer seeks to chronicle events in areas hit by crackdown

Global
The world food and hunger crisis
Firms seek patents on 'climate ready' altered crops
Food crisis is depicted as 'silent tsunami'--sharp price hikes leave many millions hungry iU.N. food aid funds growing, but needs growing too

Latin America
Gunmen kill three top Mexican policemen
Bolivians to hold confidence vote on their president as he struggles to enact reform against wishes of people in some resource-rich regions of Bolivia

United States
Racist incidents give some Obama campaigners pause
Study says immigrants to US adapt quickly
Mildred Loving, 1939-2008: quiet Virginia wife ended interracial marriage ban
Farm bill negotiators cut funds for overseas school lunch program, increase funds for US nutrition programs

Opinion
'We are workers, not criminals!'  David Bacon May 14, 2008
Both Rumsfeld and the current Defense Secretary Gates share the long war fallacy. Iraq has shown the limits of U.S. power. We must change America, not the world. Andrew J. Bacevich Los Angeles Times 
Sweetheart deal: the latest farm bill outrage is a plan to prop up sugar producers Washington Post

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