US coffee chain Starbucks is denying Ethiopia earnings of £47m ($88m) a year, according to Oxfam.
The UK charity says Starbucks asked the National Coffee Association (NCA) to block the country’s bid to trademark three types of coffee bean in the US.
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SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE: Stigma hobbles HIV/AIDS fight
Some 90,000 Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees living in eastern Sudan could go hungry unless more money is found to fill a 47-percent funding gap in a feeding programme for them, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
Africa’s forgotten HIV children
Children with HIV and Aids in the developing world are half as likely as adults to get life-saving drugs. This means fewer than one in 10 of over two million children infected get anti-retroviral treatment (ARVs).
More than $380bn has been stolen or wasted by Nigerian governments since independence in 1960, Nigeria’s chief corruption fighter says
More than $380bn has either been stolen or wasted by Nigerian governments since independence in 1960, the chief corruption fighter has said.
Nuhu Ribadu told the BBC that Nigeria has “nothing much” to show for the missing money.
Illegal orphanages mushroom.
Malawi’s opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) has cautiously welcomed an informal offer by President Bingu wa Mutharika to begin cross-party talks aimed at easing political tensions.
WEST AFRICA: Child deaths from AIDS to keep growing
Some 12,500 girls currently belong to government and non-government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a programme to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate all militias into society is failing them, Save the Children, an NGO, said in an August 2005 report.
Calls for review of law in wake of Madonna adoption.
Although the government has not publicly declared the Ebola haemorrhagic fever over, medical authorities in the Republic of Congo say they have the situation well under control.
US envoy in peace bid for Darfur
United States Sudan envoy Andrew Natsios has arrived in Khartoum for a trip expected to take him to the troubled region of Darfur.
Darfur campaign finds a powerful friend in MySpace
Bich Ngoc Cao had been interested in the Darfur crisis since she took a class on the history of genocide at the University of Southern California. In May, she traveled from her home in Los Angeles to Washington for the rallies on the Mall.
Sudan divestment effort gains momentum at state level
House members are scattering to their home states this week with inconclusive results on the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan, but momentum is growing at the state level for governments to divest public funds from companies, mostly foreign-based, doing business with Khartoum.
