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SWAZILAND, Too much bread to buy a loaf (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75757  MBABANE, 7 December 2007 (IRIN) The escalating price of bread is the latest blow to Swazi households, already struggling with a parallel rise in the cost of maizemeal caused by the worst drought in a generation. On 10 December ...
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Forest Loss in Sumatra Becomes a Global Issue (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/world/asia/06indo.html?r=1&ref=environmen t&oref=slogin By PETER GELLING Published: December 6, 2007 KUALA CENAKU, Indonesia, Dec. 1 — Here on the island of Sumatra, about 1,200 miles from the global climate talks ...
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Groundwater 'not properly taken into account' in African policies, according to Adama Sall (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
11/19/2007 Source: Sahara News Senegal Senegal's Minister of Hydraulics and the National Hydrographic Network, Adama Sall, told a West African water gathering in Dakar that groundwater management was a neglected topic in African policymaking because of a lack of qualified water advisors ...
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Cholera crisis hits Baghdad (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2220529,00.html David Smith Sunday December 2, 2007 The Observer Baghdad is facing a 'catastrophe' with cases of cholera rising sharply in the past three weeks to more than 100, strengthening fears that poor sanitation and the imminent ...
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Nonstop Theft and Bribery Are Staggering Iraq (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
DAMIEN CAVE Published: December 2, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/world/middleeast/02baghdad.html?r=1&hp&or ef=slogin BAGHDAD, Dec. 1 — Jobless men pay $500 bribes to join the police. Families build houses illegally on government land ...
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