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- AGRICULTURE-AFRICA: Calls for Sustainable Green Revolution
By Wambi Michael KAMPALA, Jul 4 (IPS) - Africa needs a Green Revolution, but one that will increase agricultural productivity by using practices that build soil fertility while minimising harm to the environment. Organic farmers, traders and researchers
- Sudan: Two foreign aid workers kidnapped in Darfur: officials
Source: Agence France-Presse (AFP) KHARTOUM, July 3, 2009 (AFP) - Two women aid workers from Ireland and Uganda were kidnapped Friday by armed men in Sudan's volatile Darfur region, the scene of Africa's longest running conflict, officials told AFP.
- Irish aid worker kidnapped in Sudan
A 32-year-old Dublin woman is one of two aid workers kidnapped in Sudan. Sharon Commins and a 42-year-old Ugandan woman work for the Irish charity GOAL. They were taken by an armed gang of six men from their compound in the north Darfur town of Kutum at
- 2 foreign workers taken in Darfur-officials
KHARTOUM - Two women aid workers from Ireland and Uganda were kidnapped Friday by armed men in Sudan's volatile Darfur region, the scene of Africa's longest running conflict, officials told Agence France Presse. 'Unidentified armed men came to the
- Museveni is not a US puppet - Browning
Mr Steven Browning is the outgoing US ambassador, after serving over three years in Uganda. Saturday Monitor?s Kikonyogo Ngatya talked to Ambassador Browning on Wednesday about his experience in the country. Below are the excerpts: What has been your
- Gunmen seize Irish, Ugandan aid workers in northern Darfur
Gunmen abducted two female aid workers in Darfur on Friday, said the international peacekeeping mission in the western region of Sudan. It was the third kidnapping of foreign humanitarian workers since March, when an international court issued a warrant
- Aid workers kidnapped in Darfur, UN says
KHARTOUM - Armed men seized two female aid workers, one Irish and one Ugandan, in Sudans troubled Darfur region on Friday, a United Nations source said, the third kidnapping of foreign aid staff in the territory in four months. The men took the women,
- UPDATE 2-Two foreign aid workers kidnapped in Darfur
KHARTOUM, July 3 (Reuters) - Armed men seized two female aid workers, one Irish and one Ugandan, in Sudan's Darfur region on Friday, their employer said, the third kidnapping of foreign aid staff in the territory in four months. The six men took the
- Aid worker feared kidnapped in Sudan
AN IRISH aid worker was missing last night, feared kidnapped in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan. It is believed the woman, who works for the organisation Goal, was taken hostage by armed men at a compound in the town of Kutum. It is thought a Ugandan
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