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Aid groups: Funds needed to fight Africa hunger
MiamiHerald.com
By KRISTA LARSON AP DAKAR, Senegal -- Aid groups warned Monday they are nearly $200 million short of the money needed to fight a growing hunger crisis that threatens more than 1 million children across western and central Africa this year.

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Aid groups: Funds needed to fight Africa hunger
Fox News
DAKAR, Senegal – Aid groups warned Monday they are nearly $200 million short of the money needed to fight a growing hunger crisis that threatens more than 1 million children across western and central Africa this year. Aid agencies first warned of a ...

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News Analysis: African consumer grows
Xinhua
Closely tied to this is the increase in the number of remittances into Africa, most of which are for immediate use by relatives back homes to buy food, medical services and pay school fees that is also feeding into the retail expansion of the continent ...

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African Markets - Factors to watch on May 3
Reuters
SENEGAL - Heads of state from regional bloc ECOWAS meet to discuss a coup in Guinea-Bissau, and a counter-coup/transition in Mali. RWANDA - President Paul Kagame scheduled to hold a press conference in the morning hours. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares ...

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Togo: US Treasury's Neal Wolin in Country on Africa's Future
AllAfrica.com
In many lower-income countries with less exposure to the global financial system, sudden declines in commodity prices, remittances, and capital inflows threatened to undo years of steady economic progress. Swift actions, however, blunted the effect of ...

William J. Garvelink and Farha Tahir
The Cutting Edge
But the brewing food crisis, spanning Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Chad, has been overstated, and the headlines fail to identify the core causes of food insecurity and malnutrition in the region.