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.
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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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