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Southern African Crisis

March 2003

03/18/2003 Throughout Mutare is the evidence of the failure of the rains during the crucial months of November and December, when the maize crop should have matured. In the small plots that surround each homestead, scorched and shrunken plants stand abandoned.
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From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
Related: [Zimbabwe] [Aid] [Emergency Relief] [Food] [Poverty]
03/10/2003 Over 2,000 women in Swaziland were honoured on International Women's Day for saving countless lives by managing food relief distributions.
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From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
Related: [Swaziland] [Emergency Relief] [Food] [Gender]
03/10/2003 With war pending in Iraq, and the potential for massive humanitarian needs there, humanitarian agencies are concerned that donors will fail to fund urgent food needs in Africa, which could have fatal consequences for one million refugees on the continent.
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From: ReliefWeb UN OCHA
Related: [Africa] [Aid] [Emergency Relief] [Food] [Refugees] [Conflict]

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Background
Exploring what causes famine
(01/16/2003)
Floods, drought and conflict are among the many factors contributing to the complexity of widespread famine in Southern Africa, according to this gathering of research undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies over the past two years.
WFP's Africa Hunger Alert campaign
(12/16/2002)
The United Nations World Food Programme's Africa Hunger Alert campaign, is aimed at drawing international attention to the unprecedented crisis gripping the continent where 38 million people face starvation.
GM food aid dossier
(10/28/2002)
Attention increasingly focuses on diplomatic wrangling over whether the recipients of aid should accept unsegregrated genetically modified grain.
UNICEF update
(10/24/2002)
The United Nations Children's Fund's 23 October update on the crisis.
Famine 'real and growing'
(09/15/2002)
At the core of the famine threat are drought, poor harvests, lack of resources for long-term health and food security issues, poor political decisions and the effects of global recession.
The UN's role
(08/11/2002)
Wide areas of Southern Africa are in deep crisis as the World Food Programme struggles to ensure adequate supplies in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Complex causes
Angolan children queue for food
(07/22/2002)
Unpredictable weather patterns, including floods and droughts, have caused crop failures. The situation has been made worse by political and economic factors, leaving people without food, and without seeds to plant new crops.


 
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