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...Hunger and starvation have been among the many adverse results of the heavily politicized land-grab starting in 1998. There are widespread reports of hunger, alleviated only by food donated by the World Food Program and the U.S. Agency for International Development. But widespread food distribution, especially in areas that had voted against Mugabe, was hampered and limited. The best indicators predict that because farmers cannot obtain fertilizer, take out bank loans or depend on any consistent law and order, hunger and starvation will only escalate in the months to come...
There's little hope of undermining the dangerous influence of the Islamist madrasahs so long as Pakistan remains as poor and illiterate as it is. Parents know that at least the madrasahs will give their children a free meal. "It's poverty and hunger that drive these students to the madrasahs," says Aziz Ahmed Faruqi, who teaches in a Karachi seminary. "If their stomachs weren't empty, they wouldn't come." --By Tim McGirk/Karachi. With reporting by Ghulam Hasnain...
...Obviously we’re tapping into a hunger for thinking of where the country is going,” Orfield said...
...devout Baptist, the verdict was a dissatisfying conclusion—or disappointing twist—to a five-month ordeal that has been marked by prayer with his family, a month-long hunger strike and the study of several languages...
After the trial, he recalled the humdrum means he had used to cope with an approaching court date: Okhotin, who once undertook a 27-day hunger strike in defiance of his detention without formal charges, said he spent much of July buried in books, including a Victor Hugo novel and texts on the study of German, Hebrew and Latin...