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...report. Young people in Eastern Europe are becoming infected as the disease spreads from intravenous drug users to the rest of the population. "The implications for the region's economic growth and social stability are alarming," said Carol Bellamy, executive director of UNICEF, which compiled the report. MALAWI Stirring Stuff An opposition leader was arrested and accused of inciting demonstrations against President Bakili Muluzi's expected bid for a third five-year term. Danga Mughogo, a regional chairman of the Forum for Unity and Development, had allegedly called on people to rise up against renewed efforts to change the constitution...
...Columbia University's Earth Institute, is not to dictate food policy from the West but to help the developing world build its own biotech infrastructure so it can produce the things it needs the most. "We can't presume that our technologies will bail out poor people in Malawi," he says. "They need their own improved varieties of sorghum and millet, not our genetically improved varieties of wheat and soybeans...
Drought Severe food shortages caused by two years of drought may kill as many as 300,000 people in southern Africa in the next six months, according to the U.N. Countries hardest hit include Malawi, Zambia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Mozambique...
...after the murder of Vice President Haji Abdul Qadir earlier this month. SOUTHERN AFRICA Adding More to Africa's Woes: Famine Two years of drought, flooding, political instability and incompetence have caused food shortages affecting as many as 15 million people in six southern African countries. Worst hit are Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia, where rains fell at the wrong time and floods washed away crops. Internal strife has not helped. Angola is emerging from decades of civil war. Land seizures have disrupted the commercial farms that once made Zimbabwe Africa's breadbasket. And Malawi sold off its grain reserves last...
...regional drought worsened. Launching an appeal for urgent international funding to avert a humanitarian crisis, the WFP said the number needing emergency relief in the region was expected to double in the next few months. The agency is already trying to feed 2.6 million people in Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe...