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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
Source: IRIN Ordinary Malawians, cheered by the prospect of cheaper food, have welcomed government's ban on the private trading of maize, but food security experts and businesses have expressed concern....
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Aug 28, 2008
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(author unknown), WFP.org Newsroom News
WFP is scaling up food assistance to more than 220,000 persons displaced by conflict in southern Mindanao, delivering nearly 1,000 metric tons of rice – around one month's ration -- to civilians caught up in the fighting between Philippine government troops and forces of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front....
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Aug 28, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
Source: IRIN Fatema takes her four-year-old daughter, Nafeesa, to a free soya-milk distribution centre in Herat city, western Afghanistan, three times a week in a bid to protect her against malnutrition....
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Aug 28, 2008
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(author unknown), WFP.org Newsroom News
WFP in Nepal announced today it was mobilizing emergency food assistance for 50,000 people displaced by floods in the eastern Terai districts of Nepal....
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Aug 27, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
Source: IRIN High fertiliser and fuel prices in South Africa may impact the 2009/2010 maize harvest in the region's largest producer, a grain farmers' body warned....
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Aug 27, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
Source: IRIN Parts of eastern and southern Burundi are threatened with acute food shortages following low agricultural yields compounded by an influx of returning refugees, an official of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has said....
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Aug 27, 2008
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Source: IRIN Flash floods following torrential rains in Ethiopia's Gambella regional state have spread to four woredas [districts] and displaced thousands more people, an official in the area said....
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Aug 27, 2008
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Source: IRIN Conditions for thousands of internally displaced persons camping on the outskirts of the Somali capital Mogadishu are getting worse, with malnutrition cases increasing as more arrive daily, sources told IRIN....
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Aug 26, 2008
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(author unknown), Hunger in the News
Commodity Online...
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Aug 26, 2008
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