NORTH KOREA: Conjunction of crises jeopardises regime

Kim Jong-il's regime faces mounting domestic and external challenges to its survival, most of...

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AFRICA: Missed hunger targets cost lives and growth

The report notes that, on present evidence, the target of reducing to 400 million the number of...

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US Secretary of State Colin Powell visited Aceh today as part of a tour of the Asian countries...

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Abdullahi Yusuf was sworn in as president yesterday at a ceremony in Nairobi. Somalia has been...

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The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on October 4 updated its warning on the desert locust...

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At the July congress of the ZANU-PF Youth League, President Robert Mugabe indicated that he will...

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Sudanese government officials and Darfur rebels fighting a 17-month war in western Sudan are...

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) launched its World Health Report 2004 on May 11. The WHO...

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Despite the experience of humanitarian crises in the 1990s, the long debate over UN reform, and...

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Progress towards establishing peace and security in Sudan and in the Democratic Republic of Congo...

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