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 NAIROBI, 04 July 2008 (IRIN) - Prices of food in Kenya, which have already risen by 50 percent since the start of 2008, could increase further following a new government regulation, a consumer watch group has warned. | |
 MANILA, 04 July 2008 (IRIN) - The Philippine government, international community, and local private sector all provided assistance in response to typhoon Fengshen, the first major typhoon to hit the Philippines this year. | |
 NEW YORK, 01 July 2008 (IRIN) - New ground was broken in US attempts to break the link between foreign food aid and supporting its own farmers in a new farm bill, but for many, including the Bush-led administration, it was too little, too late. | |
 DAMASCUS, 30 June 2008 (IRIN) - Basil the baker is not a happy bread maker. “Everything is more difficult to afford now, and it will get worse,” he said, amid the dough and ovens of his bakery in the middle class district of Shalan in Damascus. The availability of cheap food has been a cornerstone Syrian domestic economic policy. | |
 GRAFTON, 25 June 2008 (IRIN) - The aid workers who provided food, healthcare and shelter to internally displaced people (IDPs) during Sierra Leone’s civil war are long-gone from this muddy, rubbish-strewn community of tin-roofed lean-to’s and open sewers. For the 10,000 former IDPs who stayed behind, disillusionment, powerlessness and lawlessness run strong. | |
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