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• Nepals silent food crisis | Ed Douglas

  
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  The financial crisis has left the World Food Programme short of funds. For the people of Nepal, the consequences are dire Last April I watched an ancient Russian helicopter landing at a remote dirt airstrip in western Nepal. The chopper had been chartered by the World Food Programme to fly in food to Mugu , the ...
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• Anti-HIV gel hopes dashed by trial results

  
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  Promising microbicide piloted in British-funded trial turns out to be ineffective Hopes of a breakthrough that would allow women to protect themselves from HIV have been dashed with todays revelation from a large, British-funded trial that a promising microbicide has turned out to be ineffective. Britains Medical ...
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• Disease eradication: Yesterdays ambition

  
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  If ever there was a single moment of lost innocence in global medicine, it came with the triumph of disease over the best efforts of rich nations to transfer their knowledge and expertise to the rest of the world. Yet – as veterans of the campaign to eradicate smallpox will remember at commemorative events next ...
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• Not so fair trade | Andrew Chambers

  
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  Fairtrade products, such as the newly anointed KitKat, can offer little extra benefit to farmers and may even hold them back Nestlé has just announced that KitKat – Britains biggest-selling chocolate bar – will carry the Fairtrade logo from next month. But how much do consumers really know about the ...
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• Food rations put Katine residents back on HIV/Aids medication

  
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  US-based NGO has started distributing food to people living with HIV/Aids in Katine sub-county Katine residents with HIV/Aids who were forced to stop taking their medication because of severe food shortages in the region are now receiving food rations. Domitila Apecho, 50, who is HIV-positive, is one of many in the ...
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• The tsunami – five years later

  
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  Author: Peter McCawley It is now almost five years since December 2004, when the great tsunami swept across more than a dozen countries in Asia. More than 230, 000 people died across the region. The cost to human life was mainly borne by Indonesia, in Aceh, where perhaps 170, 000 people were swept away. Five years ...
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• Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Address

  
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  I’ve read through President Obama’s address today when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, and thought it was well written. It seemed to cover many of the major points that makes the US great while identifying the complexity of the modern world. If you recall back to my article from when Obama was announced as ...
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• Pre-budget report 2009: the main points

  
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  Key details from chancellor Alistair Darlings 2009 pre-budget report • Pre-budget report Economic policy Tax and spending Executive pay and bonuses Economics Credit crunch Recession Retail industry Banking Economic growth (GDP) Government Borrowing Manufacturing sector ...
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• Climate Refugees Could Number 1 Billion by 2050

  
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  Climate refugees in central Zimbabwe. Photo via EcoWorldy While the disastrous consequences of climate change may seem a ways off for some in the developed world, the International Organization for Migration reported today that it has already driven an estimated 24 million people from their homes–a number, they ...
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• India gets $128.5 million grant for AIDS, TB, malaria Eradication

  
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  International aid agency Global Fund Tuesday announced a $128.5 million grant for India to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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• Urban refugees struggle to make ends meet in South Africa

  
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  PRETORIA, South Africa, December 7 (UNHCR) - Telmore Mutinhima struggles to sleep on his grimy, threadbare mattress on an early South African morning. It’s his most treasured possession - it’s his only possession.There’s the odour of unwashed bodies in the abandoned warehouse where he lies in a cubicle amid ...
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• Letters: Cap and trade will reduce emissions

  
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  Your article ( Fear that $3tn market of future benefits few , 30 November) raises many of the issues examined in my recent report to the prime minister on global carbon trading. Cap and trade provides a guaranteed limit on emissions, while reducing the cost of compliance, and is a proven system for delivering real ...
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• How development policy was made in Uganda

  
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  Uganda has had more influence on current development thinking than any other country, argues Alan Whitworth Alignment; poverty reduction strategies; heavily-indebted poor countries (HIPC) debt relief; virtual poverty funds; budget support; public expenditure tracking surveys. These are all familiar terms to people ...
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• Spanish aid workers kidnapped

  
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  Al-Qaida group suspected of kidnapping two men and a woman from Spanish NGO travelling in convoy Spains foreign ministry today confirmed that three Spanish aid workers have been kidnapped in Mauritania, probably by a group affiliated to al-Qaida that has been targeting westerners in recent years. The two men and a ...
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• Amorikot school still waiting for government support

  
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  The government has failed to keep its promise to take over Amorikot school, in Katine, from the community and pay teachers wages What a difference a road makes , at least for a small minority of Ugandans with a car or motorbike to drive along it. Last July, when I came to Soroti to see the first big achievement of ...
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• Letters: Anti-gay laws and charity in Uganda

  
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  Given the proposed penalty of hanging for "aggravated homosexuality" if one of the same sex partners is HIV positive ( Fury at Uganda proposal for gay executions , 28 November) I hope that the Mvule Trust will have weeded out any lesbians, particularly lesbians with HIV, before any money from the new Guardian appeal ...
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• Climate change: Looking south

  
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  The impact of climate change on the developing world is already so far advanced it can no longer be prevented, only mitigated. It can be seen in the increased frequency of flooding in Bangladesh, or the desertification of sub-Saharan Africa. But it is also being experienced by millions of families and individuals, the ...
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• Climate change will hit Africa hardest | Meles Zenawi

  
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  Having bailed out bankers, can developed counties really oppose funds to help developing nations fight global warming? Climate change will hit Africa – a continent that has contributed virtually nothing to bring it about – first and hardest. Aside from Antarctica, Africa is the only continent that has not ...
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• Success weighs heavy on Namibia | Rose Orlik

  
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  The young African nation has lost more than it has gained by its misleading classification as an upper middle income country Much significance is attached to the regional and parliamentary elections taking place in Namibia. It is the first time that so-called "free borns" – children born after Namibia gained ...
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• Dragons and goddesses donate mugs for auction for Mary’s Meals

  
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  Sounds like a fairy tale and maybe it is. A dragon, a domestic goddess, a money tree, a fantastical nanny and a storyteller - among others - have raided their kitchen cupboards to support the Dalmally charity Mary’s Meals this Christmas.Duncan Bannatyne, Nigella Lawson, Chris Tarrant, Emma Thompson and Alan ...
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