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Cameroon: For Fear of Contaminated Milk - Nursing Mothers Urged to Breastfeed Kids
In a move to stem the harmful effects of contaminated Chinese milk, mothers in Cameroon have been advised to breastfeed their children as recommended by reproductive health officials.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 16:31

Uganda: Gulu Orphans Get Milk Goats to Reduce Malnutrition
Orphaned children from Gulu have received milk goats from the Christian Children's Fund to reduce malnutrition.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 11:24

South Africa: Local Farmers Asked to Help Zimbabwe
AGRICULTURE and Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana has asked SA's commercial farmers to join the agriculture department in coming to the aid of Zimbabwean farmers to prevent a food crisis in that country in the year ahead.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 09:14

Namibia: San Community to Receive Drought Relief Food
The Omaheke Regional Emergency Management Unit (Oremu) will soon distribute drought relief food to the San community in the region.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 17:31

Nigeria: FCTA Inaugurates 18-Man Food and Nutrition Committee
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has inaugurated an 18-man committee on Food and Nutrition as a way of tackling malnutrition in women and children under five years.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 10:33

Nigeria: FCTA Launches Committee On Food And Nutrition
An 18 member Committee on Food and Nutrition in the FCT was on Tuesday launched by the FCT Administration (FCTA) to find a solution to the scourge of malnutrition in the country.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 10:26

Zimbabwe: You Have to Plant Before You Can Harvest
Zimbabwe faces yet another disastrous agricultural year: with hardly a month to go before the planting season starts, many farmers have not received the fertiliser and seeds they need.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 07:46

Africa: Wiping Out Hunger - One Fruit Fly at a Time
For years, farmers in one of Senegal's most mango-rich zones, Keur Mbir Ndao, 80km east of the capital, were losing more than half their harvests.
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 07:22

Zimbabwe: Southern Region Faces Starvation
PEOPLE in the southern region of the country are facing starvation as food shortages have reached critical levels with villagers exchanging their livestock for maize and other basic foodstuffs.
Source : AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2008 15:32

Namibia: Workshop on Regional Food Facility Begins
Today, Namibia holds its in-country consultations on the establishment of the proposed regional strategic food reserves for the SADC region.
Source : AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2008 14:48

Sameer Looks to Region to Expand Market for Powder Milk
Sameer Agriculture and Livestock has extended its exploits in the powder milk market to West Africa as the company seeks to become a leader in an industry dominated by foreign brands.
Source : AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2008 13:53

Ghanaians Urged to Take to Vegetarian Diet
The President of the Vegetarian Association of Ghana (VAG), Nathan Adu has urged Ghanaians to cultivate the habit to become vegetarians since the practice would immune one's system from many diseases and extend ones life span.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 17:50

Ethiopia: Private Japanese Donor Supports Unicef Nutrition Programme Here
UNICEF Ethiopia on Thursday announced that it has received a donation of $1 million dollars from late Kihachiro Onitsuka, a private Japanese donor and founder of the multinational sporting goods company.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 17:09

Shrubs And Leaves On the Menu As Karamoja Food Shortages Increase
Mothers wait to vaccinate their children on 1 October at Namuduka village in Moroto district. The government and the UN say that up to 100 children die every week from largely preventable diseases
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 14:40

Africa: 'Subsidies Will Solve Africa's Food Crisis'
As the food situation in Africa becomes critical, the continent's governments have been asked to immediately start giving farming subsidies to overcome a crisis that could condemn millions of people to starvation.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 13:13

Nigeria: Price of Fresh Tomatoes Crashes in Delta
The price of tomatoes in Asaba, Delta State, has gone down to N6,000 from N7,000, for a large basket according to a survey by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 13:02

Angola: Hunger and Poverty are Priorities - Head of State
The President of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos, this Friday here said that the combat to hunger and poverty are the main priorities, the same as the implementation of the sub-programme of food security or nourishment self-sufficiency.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 10:10

Nigeria: World Peace Day - When Hunger, Women and Youths are Involved
The popular saying that a "hungry man is an angry man" re-echoed last Sunday at the major harbinger of conflict in the North Central States of the country as Nigerians of all walks of life converged in Abuja to celebrate the International Peace Day.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 10:20

Zimbabwe: Urgent Aid Needed as Countyry's Humanitarian Crisis Worsens - UN Relief Chief
The humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe is deteriorating and will continue to worsen into next year, according to the top United Nations humanitarian official, who has called for urgent aid to avert increased human suffering in the Southern African nation.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 07:44

Zimbabwe: Food Crisis Worsens
THE hills around Garanyemba, deep in Matabeleland South province, are littered with stunning rock formations, stark testaments to the power of nature.
Source : AllAfrica | 02-Oct-2008 15:50

Nigeria: Nutritionists Warn Against 'Junk' Food
Nutritionists have advised Nigerians to desist from eating "junk" foods in view of the hazards they pose to human health.
Source : AllAfrica | 02-Oct-2008 10:43

Africa: New 'Green Revolution' Needed to Combat Hunger in Africa, UN Relief Chief Says
A new Green Revolution is urgently needed in Africa to curb the suffering of the most vulnerable people, according to the top United Nations relief official, who recently saw first-hand how the current dire food crisis is affecting Ethiopia.
Source : AllAfrica | 02-Oct-2008 09:33

Kenya: Students Face Hunger Due to Cash
Several boarding secondary schools in Taita District may close early this term due to the rising cost of food.
Source : AllAfrica | 02-Oct-2008 08:40

Doctors Without Borders Still Blocked in Maradi Despite New Memorandum of Understanding
Ten weeks after Doctors Without Boders/Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) authorization to treat malnutrition in the Maradi region was suspended, the French section of MSF is no longer providing any medical-nutritional treatment on site there. A new memorandum of understanding was drafted between the Ministry of Public Health and MSF, but the authorities of Niger have yet to sign it.
Source : AllAfrica | 01-Oct-2008 16:08

Ethiopia: Humanitarian Bulletin - 29 September 2008
EMERGENCY BENEFICIARY NUMBER REVISED
Source : AllAfrica | 01-Oct-2008 15:16

Namibia: Who Issues Alert On Melamine
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) have called on countries to be alert to the possible spreading of melamine contaminated dairy products.
Source : AllAfrica | 01-Oct-2008 12:11

Nigeria: Eid-El- Fitr Celebration - Mica Feeds Hundreds
The Movement for Islamic Culture and Awareness (MICA), has fed over three hundred people which the group's leader, Architect Mufadil Bakare, saying it was done as part of the celebrations of the eid-el-fitr marking the end of the Ramadan fast and in continuation of the spirit of sharing imbibed during the fasting month.
Source : AllAfrica | 01-Oct-2008 10:23

Africa: Widespread Hunger Poses National Security Threat
The director of the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) warns that the burgeoning global food crisis is ?a silent tsunami striking the most vulnerable? wherever they are located.
Source : AllAfrica | 01-Oct-2008 09:47

Uganda: Ecweru Warns of Famine
STATE minister for disaster preparedness Musa Ecweru has warned of an impending famine if farmers did not stop selling their produce to southern Sudan and other neighbouring countries.
Source : AllAfrica | 01-Oct-2008 08:56

Starving Karimojong Cross to Pader
AT least 346 Karimojong women and children have crossed into Pader district in search for food.
Source : AllAfrica | 01-Oct-2008 08:37

Zimbabwe: Farm Animals Bartered to Stave Off Hunger
In Dongamuzi village, in the Lupane district of Zimbabwe's Matabeleland North Province, Jestina Moyo, 56, is making a deal she knows is unfair, but she also knows she has little choice but to barter one of her few remaining cows for six buckets of maize to feed her family.
Source : AllAfrica | 01-Oct-2008 07:43

Africa: Melamine Milk Crisis - Countries to Ensure Safe Feeding for Infants And Increase Vigilance
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are urging affected countries to ensure safe feeding of millions of infants following the ongoing melamine milk crisis in China. The two agencies also called on countries to be alert to the possible spread of melamine-contaminated dairy products.
Source : AllAfrica | 30-Sep-2008 14:51

Kenya: New Food Crisis
Rina Awinja, her 5-month-old baby, Stanley Lumumba, and her husband, George Oyange, are HIV-positive.
Source : AllAfrica | 30-Sep-2008 09:56

Rwanda: Kitchen Gardens Eradicate Malnutrition
Residents of Umulimo village in Kigarama , Gikondo last Saturday were urged to adopt new farming skills in order to fight poverty and improve on their health.
Source : AllAfrica | 30-Sep-2008 08:38

Zimbabwe: Country Set to Run Out of Food by November
A US aid organisation has warned that Zimbabwe faces completely running out of food as early as the first week of November, because the government has not ensured that adequate quantities of basic cereals have been imported to make up for the poor harvest.
Source : AllAfrica | 29-Sep-2008 11:51

Nigeria: Free Meals - Indigent Want More After Ramadan
Thousands of less privileged Muslims in Borno state who have been the beneficiaries of free breakfast meal being offered by the state government since the beginning of the Ramadan have started missing the month as its end brings the gesture to an end.
Source : AllAfrica | 29-Sep-2008 11:16

Uganda: Empowering People Living With HIV Very Crucial
After 25 years of a generalised HIV epidemic in Uganda, a lot of progress in terms of mitigating the effects of the disease has been made. People who have contracted HIV can now live longer and enjoy healthier lives - thanks to the advent and increased access to antiretroviral drugs.
Source : AllAfrica | 29-Sep-2008 10:13

Zambia: Food Insecurity Hits Schools
"Sometimes there is barely any food at home, so I only eat at school, at lunch," said Justin Banda, a 12 year old student, at Chikumboso school in Lusaka's Ngombe township.
Source : AllAfrica | 29-Sep-2008 08:25

Africa: Food Security Hostage to Climate Trends
More than 50 African leaders meeting at the United Nations this week focused on strategies to overcome a myriad of interrelated problems - food shortages, droughts, HIV/AIDS, an energy crisis, climate change and military conflicts - on the troubled continent.
Source : AllAfrica | 29-Sep-2008 08:25

More and More in Need of Food Aid
IT is a very hot Tuesday and the scorching sun has no mercy on the hundreds of weary people gathered at Rimuka Primary School in Kadoma.
Source : AllAfrica | 26-Sep-2008 16:28

Mozambique: Guebuza Calls for World Partnership on Food Production
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday called for the immediate formation of a world partnership, using all means at humanity's disposal, to increase food production, in order to end the shortages that drive increased food prices.
Source : AllAfrica | 26-Sep-2008 12:41

Africa: Matching Struggling Farmers With the World's Hungry
In a significant policy shift, the Rome-based World Food Programme (WFP) announced Wednesday that it will start buying food directly from local farmers' associations in developing countries.
Source : AllAfrica | 26-Sep-2008 10:13

Rwanda: President Kagame Woos Multinational Companies
President Paul Kagame Wednesday called upon multinational corporations to invest in Africa and other developing countries to facilitate them achieve prosperity. He said this during the launch of the Business Call to Action, a function that took place on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly that started Monday.
Source : AllAfrica | 26-Sep-2008 07:32

Southern Africa: Investment, Information Keys to Productivity
Sustained investment in agriculture accompanied by effective and inclusive policies are key strategies for Southern Africa to address the global food crisis.
Source : AllAfrica | 26-Sep-2008 07:27

At UN, Country Calls for Investment in Agriculture to Combat Food Crisis
A "massive investment in agriculture" is needed across Africa if the continent is to respond to the global food crisis sparked by soaring prices of basic crops, Sierra Leone's President told the General Assembly's high-level segment today.
Source : AllAfrica | 26-Sep-2008 07:23

Niger: Fighting Hunger One Tree at a Time
For 17 years, the Sweden-based non-profit Eden Foundation has been working with hundreds of farmers in one of Niger's most arid zones to disprove the reigning logic that the desert is a tough place to nurture plant- and human- life through its research and free seed distribution.
Source : AllAfrica | 26-Sep-2008 07:22