Ethiopian Unity Diaspora Forum

STATE DEPARTMENT – As host of this week’s summit of the world’s Group of Eight leading industrial nations (G8), President Barack Obama has put African food security on the agenda.

Food security remains a recurring problem acrossAfrica, despite hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid each year. The Horn of Africa endured a severe drought last year that turned to famine inSomalia, and several countries inWest Africa are now going through a food shortage that aid agencies have warned needs immediate international attention.

(JUBA) – South Sudan president Salva Kiir on Wednesday expressed his disappointment in the regional support his country has received in its dispute with Sudan, saying his country is fighting the expansion of Islamic ideologies into neighbouring countries.

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Sudanese war planes have launched renewed air strikes against South Sudan, violating a UN Security Council resolution to end weeks of a bitter border conflict, the South’s army said Wednesday.

“The Republic of Sudan has been randomly bombarding civilian areas,” said Southern army spokesman Kella Kueth, who said the air strikes hit the border states of Upper Nile, Unity and Western Bahr el-Ghazal on Monday and Tuesday.