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Breaking News Tue, 13 May 2008
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Rice to stay costlier
| By Amin Ahmed | RAWALPINDI, May 12: Rice prices have skyrocketed by around 76 per cent between December 2007 and April 2008, according to the ‘Rice Price Index’, released by the United Nations Food ... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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Liberia bans food exports to protect rice supply; drops duties on farm tools
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | MONROVIA, Liberia - Liberia banned all food exports Monday, saying profiteers have been taking advantage of its cheap rice prices to truck the grain - already in short supply... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
A worker carries relief aid distributed by the World Food Program from a truck in Nhwali, southwestern Zimbabwe, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2002. An estimated 6 million of Zimbabwe's 12.5 million people are threatened by a hunger crisis caused by a terrible drought and the government's chaotic land reform program, which has badly wounded its agriculture-based economy, according to the World Food Program.  The Charlotte Observer 
Liberia bans food exports to protect rice supply
By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH | Associated Press Writer | MONROVIA, Liberia -- | Liberia banned all food exports Monday, saying profiteers have been taking advantage of its cheap rice prices to truck the gr... (photo: AP / Karel Prinsloo)
Africa   Export   Food   Liberia   Monrovia   Photos   Prices   Rice  
 President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria speaking to correspondents during a press conference to brief on "Building on Gleneagles", an initiative to assist in the fight against poverty in Africa, today at UN Headquarters.  ula1  All Africa 
My Power Project Story, by Olusegun Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in his first public reaction to spate of allegations of corruption and probes of his administration, stated last night that he acted above board in his eight years ... (photo: UN /Mark Garten)
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 Olusegun Obasanjo, president of Nigeria, Brasilia, 6 September 2005. Brasilia - Presidente da Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo fala durante almoco em sua homenagem, no Itamaraty All Africa
Obasanjo's Troubles Mount Over Controversial Bank
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) members marched through the Abuja streets at the weekend, ending at the National Assembly where members of the umbrella workers union t... (photo: Jose Cruz/ABr. file)
Law   Money   Nigeria   Photos   Politics  
MEAT - FOOD - COMMODITY Knox News
Johnson: Spoiled by cheap food
| High food prices are killing people - literally. At least five people died in Somalia last week when violent protests erupted over rising food prices and a collapsing c... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
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 Shell Oil, Shell, oil, energy, industry. tp1 Turkish Press
Shell losing 30,000 barrels per day after Nigeria oil attacks
| Shell's Awoba plant on the Sambreiro River in the Niger Delta, 25 September 2005. Oil major Royal Dutch Shell said it was losing the equivalent of 30,000 barrels of cru... (photo: WN/Theresa Poongan)
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portrait of an indian family ,new delhi railway station, Delhi, India, October 2007, 102007 Sydney Morning Herald
The delivery we're waiting for
| HONOUR killings, the barbaric male practice of avenging a family's name allegedly sullied by errant wives or sisters, claims thousands of female lives a year in India a... (photo: WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis)
Australia   Family   Human Rights   Maternity   Photos   Scheme   Women   World  
An Anopheles stephensi en:mosquito is obtaining a en:blood meal from a human host through its pointed en:proboscis. Note the droplet of blood being expelled from the abdomen after having engorged itself on its hosts blood. This mosquito is a known en:malarial vector with a distribution that ranges from en:Egypt all the way to en:China. Source: en:CDC    (js1) The Times
A third of malaria drugs in Africa are ineffective
div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } | More than a third of antimalarial drugs sold in Africa have failed quality tests, r... (photo: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / )
Africa   Drugs   Health   Malaria   Photos  
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Nigeria Eyes More Rice Imports
| Nigeria will accelerate rice imports in a move to ease food security concerns caused by soaring global prices. The government has suspended duties on rice imports for s... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Economy   Food   Nigeria   Photos   Society  
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor Mail Guardian South Africa
Court chases $375m from Charles Taylor's banks
Prosecutors for Sierra Leone's war crimes court are trying to track down $375-million they say vanished from two United States bank accounts held by former Liberian Presi... (photo: AP / Rob Keeris)
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- U.S. Re-Affirms Technical Support for Nigeriapower Sector
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- FG to Pump N400bn Into Economy
- Banks Target $5bn Investment On Nigerian Infrastructure
- Inflation Fears As FG, States Share N400bn
- First Bank Jolts Wema in Quarters
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Politics Industry
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- One-Party State?
 Left and right: Condoleezza Rice (US Secretary of State) with US President George W. Bush. ula1
Rice discusses Lebanese crisis with EU counterparts
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- Nigeria to probe abuse of 'expatriate quota' by fore
 An unidentified relative of one of the pipeline fire victims, flees a fire damaged area Wednesday, July 12, 2000, after a leaking gasoline pipeline exploded Monday morning, near the village of Oviri-Court, in the oil rich Niger Delta. The explosion kille
Despite price, future of Nigeria oil sector cloudy
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Business Sport
- Obasanjo Fails to Appear Before Reps
- FG to Pump N400bn Into Economy
- The Sins of British Airways
- Future of Country's Oil At Risk
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- With Love From Cameroon
- Verbeek facing slim pickings for Ghana
- Les Brasseries Du Cameroun's New Top Cup Formula
- CAF Competitions - Mount Cameroon, Astre, Cotonsport Qualify
Australia's Michael Beauchamp, right, collides with China's Zhu Ting during their World Cup soccer qualifying match in Kunming, in China's southwest Yunnan province Wednesday March 26, 2008.
Verbeek facing slim pickings for Ghana
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