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North Korea was not the bizarro-land that I've read about in countless magazine pieces and history books.

Feeding the future (IPS news round-up) Food security measures should target Africa’s poor, IMF says African governments looking to mitigate the effects of rising food prices on their populations should look to targeted measures specifically geared towards aiding poor families and avoiding unnecessary waste, the International Monetary Fund’s Managing Director said Friday.

The black and white photographs adorning the white washed halls of the house at 1, Akbar Road, New Delhi reveal a woman, courageous in both sprit and action. This is one of the first impressions that one tends to make upon entering the residence of our former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, who was assassinated on Oct 31, 1984.

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization which provides life-saving food in emergencies and nutritious supplements for millions of chronically malnourished people in 80 countries every year.

Lack of fertilizer and seeds, economic constraints and adverse weather have led to food insecurity in Zimbabwe, threatening to plunge five million people into hunger by early 2009, a new United Nations report released here has warned.

Insanity's fiercely mutated progeny has spawned in the skulls of the Military Junta in Myanmar. It has vanquished their brains, vaporized all compassion, and exterminated whatever micro-sized sense of humanity existed in these now unsuitable replicas of the human race.

[Updated on May 8] Satellite images from US space agency NASA showed virtually the entire coastal plain of the country, one of the poorest nations on the planet, under water. The death toll could reach 63,000.

Price rises eating away at children’s futures: an interview with World Food Programme nutritionist Andrew Thorne-Lyman Posted: 28 Apr 2008 09:13 AM CDT from Reuters Alert Net Source: WFP Global price rises mean that food is literally being taken out of the mouths of hungry children whose parents can no longer afford to feed them.

The United Nations World Food Programme announced that it will be forced to cut monthly rations in Darfur starting next month, because banditry against WFP-contracted trucks is preventing sufficient stocks of vital food relief from getting through.

Written by Elizabeth Willoughby With the press watching their every move, more and more stars are making their moves count by sharing the spotlight with United Nations missions. In the past months alone, actress Drew Barrymore pledged $1 million to the United Nations’ World Food Program to bring