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Video
(3min 38sec),
10 Sep 2008:
Four months after Cyclone Nargis, another natural disaster has struck Burma, only this time the military regime has had 50 years to prepare for it
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10 Sep 2008:
Burma devastated by swarms of vermin four months after natural disaster
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11 Aug 2008:
Millions of people suffering after failed harvests and the global increases in the price of food
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Video
(3min 44sec),
1 Aug 2008:
The rains have come, the land is lush but Ethiopians still go hungry. Annie Kelly reports
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Audio
(4min 21sec),
1 Aug 2008:
Annie Kelly reports from the hills of West Badawacho, where near starvation and severe malnourishment can be found in practically every village in the district
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1 Aug 2008:
Despite appearances, a cycle of drought and escalating food prices is taking its toll
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26 Jul 2008:
Letters: The US must take full responsibility for the possible deaths of 'at least 75,000 children who are suffering from severe acute malnutrition'
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Gallery (8 pictures),
13 Jun 2008:
Some 4.5 million Ethiopians need emergency food aid due to failed rains and high food prices, reviving memories of the country's 1984-1985 famine
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26 Nov 2006:
Crackdown on felling and exporting trees leaves Miskitos facing economic and social devastation.
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12 Nov 2006:
Kenya's herdsmen are facing extinction as global warming destroys their lands.
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15 Oct 2006:
In the first of a joint Observer/Oxfam series, Brick Lane author Monica Ali travels to the refugee camps of northern Uganda to meet a people who have come through war to find a fragile peace.
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4 Aug 2006: An Ethiopian girl who became the face of famine when she was filmed in 1984 as a weeping, starving toddler has graduated thanks to the support of a British charity.
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25 Jun 2006: Tony Blair has enlisted the support of Kofi Annan and Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates in a bid to put Africa back at the top of the international political agenda one year after Live8.
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28 May 2006: Drought is set to plunge East Africa into a famine after the rains failed. Tracy McVeigh reports from northern Turkana in Kenya where neither charities nor governments are prepared to save nomadic tribes from starvation.
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20 Apr 2006:
Oxfam today launched the biggest food crisis appeal in its 60-year history, to raise money for aid in drought-stricken areas of east Africa.
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