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    FACT SHEET: Africa

    Africa Facts and Statistics

    In this fact sheet, we will look at the history of hunger in Africa and current trends, review the unique characteristics and challenges of each of the five subregions, discuss why hunger is so persistent on the continent, and touch on some of the solutions that are making a difference.

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    Africa Hunger in the News

    Read the latest news and analysis about Africa and food insecurity below.

Poor state of India’s food subsidies

by Manu Joseph New York Times March 4, 2014

NEW DELHI — The latest economic survey of India contains cheerful prose. India’s immediate future is “propitious.”But there are grim bits, too. If the rich reach the third chapter of Volume 1, they may groan with exasperation, because it addr...

An employee of the Hattigor Tea Estate, which is owned by Amalgamated Plantations, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam in December. Photo: Himanshu Khagta/New York Times

Hope, and homes, crumbling on many Indian tea plantations

by Max Bearak New York Times February 13, 2014

NAHORANI TEA ESTATE, India — For a century and a half, Madhu Munda’s forebears toiled on the same tea plantation that she lives and works on now. Belonging to central Indian tribes brought to what is now the northeastern state of Assam by the Bri...

Akhtar, 68, carries a stack of branches through Margalla Hills National Park in Islamabad, Pakistan on January 18.  Photo: Tim Craig/Washington Post

Energy shortages force Pakistanis to scavenge for wood, threatening tree canopy

by Tim Craig Washington Post February 1, 2014

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Ramesh Iqbal lives in one of the Pakistani capital’s middle-class neighborhoods and attends college. But on a recent day, he and two friends emerged from a wooded area, their arms full of the logs and branches they had gathe...

Elderly men sit on benches at Tapgol Park in the Jongro-gu area of Seoul. South Korea has risen from the economic ashes, but its old are increasingly poor. Photo: Woohae Cho/Bloomberg

For South Korea’s old, a return to poverty as Confucian filial piety weakens

by Chico Harlan Washington Post January 21, 2014

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omara Velez, right, speaks to a group supporting domestic workers’ rights as they demonstrate across the street from the Indian Consulate General, Dec. 20, 2013, in New York. Photo:Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images

Indian rights groups say Khobragade case shows callousness toward domestic workers

by Rama Lakshmi Washington Post January 12, 2014

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Politicians, Muslim scholars join vaccination effort as violence hinders Pakistan polio drive

by Pamela Constable Washington Post January 11, 2014

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