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Western Saharan activist on hunger strike in Lanzarote airport

Hunger Strike ... activist on hunger strike; is Bin Laden still alive – and, if so, where? Plus: the first steps towards ... 's on hunger strike at an airport in Spain's Canary Islands. Aminou Haidar has been drinking nothing ...

Niger government says 2.7 million face hunger

2.7 million people in the largely arid west African country of Niger face hunger because ... , hunger, Niger) ...

Over half Niger's population faces hunger

humanitarian disaster 'Hunger Summit' pledges action but no money Economic crises cause spike in world hunger Red Cross: food aid prevents hunger in Europe FAO ...

Ukraine: the future's not very orange any more

army. Dying to work - the Turkish men on hunger strike after being laid off. Vandals near ...

Spectre of Afghan drought brings hunger, poppy fears

" - forced to live with hunger and fear of starvation - according to the country head of the World Food ... .   But hunger is a powerful incentive and in south Afghanistan, where most opium is grown and Taliban control ... , food programme, food shortage, Hamid Karzai, Human Rights, hunger, international justice, opium poppies ...

UN calls for right of return for hunger striker

Sahara, started her hunger strike three weeks ago, just days after the Moroccan authorities deported her ... .jpg (hunger strike, Morocco, phosphate, Polisario Front, Spain, UN chief Ban Ki-moon, UN High Commissioner ...

World's hungry top one billion

billion people, one sixth of the world's population, are suffering from hunger.   The head ... high food prices. Mr Diouf warns that hunger is a serious threat to global peace and security. He called on the international community to reach agreement on ways of eradicating hunger as soon ...

FAO hunger summit makes little progress

and Agricultural Organisation's hunger summit in Rome has failed to make any significant breakthroughs ... ;quot;. (FAO, G8, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Jacques Diouf, Oxfam, Rome hunger summit, UN Food ...

FAO boss fasts to publicise UN hunger summit

who suffer real hunger. Mr Diouf himself intends to fast for 24 hours.   His call comes in the run ... on the internet enabling people to protest against world hunger.   Pope Benedict XVI is going to attend ... summit, global, human rights, hunger, Jacques Diouf, Lula da Silva, Pope Benedict XVI, Robert Mugabe) ...

'Hunger Summit' pledges action but no money

: FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf at the UN Hunger Summit (Flickr/FAO News/Damien Meyer) (Ban Ki-moon, Europe, Rome, UN Hunger Summit) ...


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