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Killer floods have ravaged a dozen west African countries since June, leaving 159 people dead and making life miserable for hundreds of thousands, a United Nations agency said Tuesday. "Nearly 600,000 people are affected by the floods following heavy rains that have poured down on west Africa and caused the deaths of 159 people since June," the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian ... read more 
Rome (AFP) Sept 8, 2009The rich diversity of food in indigenous communities across the world is threatened by the spread of Western eating habits through globalisation, a United Nations agency said Tuesday. About three-quarters of the genetic diversity once found in agricultural crops has been lost over the last century, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a study. While ethnic communities in ... more
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Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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Brussels (AFP) Sept 8, 2009The European Union is preparing to back a temporary ban on bluefin tuna fishing which would see the suspension of catches around the world, a source linked to the dossier said Tuesday. The source told AFP, on condition of anonymity, that environment and fishing experts at the EU's executive arm, the European Commission, had reached an agreement to back a ban in the interests of preserving ... more  
London (UPI) Sep 4, 2009 The ancestors of modern-day Europeans likely were farmers and not hunter-gatherers, British researchers said. DNA analysis taken from burial grounds suggests early farmers migrated into Europe with plants and domesticated animals and replaced Stone Age hunter-gatherers, geneticist Mark Thomas of University College London said in a release Friday. There is little evidence of a ... more 
Paris (AFP) Sept 7, 2009Most of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are facing extreme or high risk of food shortages, according to a ranking of 148 nations obtained by AFP on Monday. The United States is least at risk followed by France, Canada, Germany and the Czech Republic, according to the Food Security Risk Index, calculated from dozens of variables that determine a country's capacity to feed its people. ... more |
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Ankara (AFP) Sept 3, 2009Turkey cannot give more water to Iraq and Syria, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said Thursday as officials from the three neighbours met here to discuss the sharing of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Ankara talks follow Iraqi accusations last month that Turkey was holding back water despite a promise to increase the flow into its drought-stricken southern neighbour. "We are aware of ... more 
Nairobi (AFP) Sept 3, 2009A sweeping drought across East Africa has left millions of people at risk of starvation, in a region plagued by increasingly erratic rainfall, humanitarian organisations and officials warn. Huge food shortages and loss of livelihood has left 6.2 million Ethiopians needing relief aid, while about 3.8 million in Kenya's arid areas, where livestock is being decimated, have also been affected ... more 
Khartoum (AFP) Sept 3, 2009"The rains have completely destroyed my house," said Jaafar Beshir, his feet drenched by a river of mud, just one of thousands of residents of a Khartoum suburb forced out by violent storms. "I built this little mud wall to protect us from the floods in the roads," said the young father of five, who comes from the Nuba mountains in central Sudan and today lives in the impoverished ... more |
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