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The cost of hunger in Swaziland
Swaziland’s reliance on international donors has averted famine but masked the reality of chronic food shortages and widespread malnutrition and stunting, according to a new study released by the government and the World Food Programme (WFP).
Zimbabwe election was ‘huge farce’—Morgan Tsvangirai
Zimbabwe’s election was a “huge farce”, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said, alleging vote-rigging by rival President Robert Mugabe’s camp.
Mr Tsvangirai said Wednesday’s presidential poll was “null and void”.
Newly declassified documents on phone records program released
Obama administration officials faced deepening political skepticism Wednesday about a far-reaching counterterrorism program that collects millions of Americans’ phone records, even as they released newly declassified documents in an attempt to spotlight privacy safeguards.
A day’s strike seeks to raise fast-food pay
From New York to several Midwestern cities, thousands of fast-food workers have been holding one-day strikes during peak mealtimes, quickly drawing national attention to their demands for much higher wages.
Wellbeing of the poor has deteriorated over past 15 years, Cafod says. Research from four countries reveals the worst situations of poverty are caused by a complex web of old and new issues including gender inequality, rapid changes in crop prices, and environmental degradation.
The wellbeing of many poor people has deteriorated over the past 15 years as a result of factors beyond their control such as environmental degradation, rapid changes in crop prices and economic crises, says a report from the Catholic aid agency Cafod.
Sierra Leone’s smallholder farmers ‘worse off’ after large land deals. Push to lure foreign investors has led to a rise in social problems, sparking fears of a return to conflict, NGO warns
Thousands of smallholder farmers in Sierra Leone have become poorer, eat fewer meals and have taken their children out of school as a result of large-scale farmland investments, according to Christian Aid
Generating global governance to end hunger—a Q&A with the FAO director-general
ADDIS ABABA , Jul 2 2013 (IPS) – Sub-Saharan Africa may be home to six of the world’s 10-fastest growing economies, but it also has a majority of the countries that are suffering from a food crisis.
Briefing: Why the violence in South Sudan’s Jonglei State
Vicious inter-communal violence, an ongoing rebellion and reports of state-sponsored human rights violations have left more than 100,000 people in desperate need in South Sudan’s Jonglei, the largest and most densely populated of the country’s 10 states.
CIA closing clandestine bases in Afghanistan, marking the start of a drawdown from a region that transformed the agency from an intelligence service struggling to emerge from the Cold War to a counterterrorism force with its own prisons, paramilitary teams and armed Predator drones
The CIA has begun closing clandestine bases in Afghanistan, marking the start of a drawdown from a region that transformed the agency from an intelligence service struggling to emerge from the Cold War to a counterterrorism force with its own prisons, paramilitary teams and armed Predator drones.
