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Soaring food prices push up cost of living

The high consumer price of maize flour, tomatoes and green maize has pushed up the general cost of living.

Security forces storm President’s farms

As more people continue to descend on Kanilai in support of the president’s farming initiative, harvesting at the Gambian leader’s farms continue to gain momentum. Last weekend’s harvest (the 7th week in to harvesting) saw a large turnout as personnel from the various security units in the country, (GAF, NIA, Police, NDEA, Prisons, Immigration, and the Fire Service) headed by their respective service chiefs, descended on the Bunubore forest park, to work on the president’s 8-km Sorghum farm. ...

So many hungers

Millions of Kenyans are sleeping hungry as food shortage bites and prices soar.

SUDAN: Josephine Moyo, “What we miss is food”

NGERJEBI Friday, November 28, 2008 (IRIN) - Josephine Moyo, 38, returned to her village in Southern Sudan in January 2008 after a decade as a refugee in neighbouring Uganda. She spoke to IRIN about the challenges of being back. “I am happy to be home but there are big challenges ahead. Lack of food is the biggest problem. We have been away since 1998, when the [Ugandan rebel] Lord's Resistance Army attacked – they killed two of my children and they wounded my husband and me. "There had been...

Towards food self sufficiency

It is not a coincidence that every generation of humanity comes with its characteristic attribute manifested in the caliber of people that dominates its time. Ours is no exception. We have a lot to show to generations to come. Some of it unpleasant, but most of it exemplary. We are greatly indebted to a few people of our time for their consummate effort in pushing forward the course of development of the human race. They dedicated their lives entirely in the course of raising the standard of...

CAMEROON: Food price hikes mean hungrier, angrier prisoners

DOUALA Thursday, November 27, 2008 (IRIN) - Food price hikes that sparked deadly riots in Cameroon earlier this year have severely cut meals for prisoners, and officials fear a revolt. “We fear an uprising if the prisoners’ food situation gets worse,” said Joseph Tsala Amougou, manager of the central prison in the commercial capital Douala. “We are having an increasingly difficult time providing two meals per day to the prisoners,” he said, pointing to high food prices. Prisoners have...

Cheaper food for Christmas

CONSUMERS can look forward to some financial relief this festive season as declining inflation figures point to a gradual drop in food prices. The Dispatch has found the average prices of some commodities have already started dropping. A 750ml bottle of cooking oil R18 at its peak price in August is now selling for R14, while five litres has dropped from about R106 to R76. A 2.5kg bag of bread flour is down by R4 to R21, while a packet of pasta has gone from about R9.60 to R8.70. Bags of...

MP accuse colleagues of being part of maize cartel

Gwasi MP John Mbandi was ejected from the House as allegations were made that some MPs were involved in a racket, causing food prices to skyrocket.

Police Bans Street Selling in Banjul

Accordingto reliable sources, the police have mounted a street clearing exercise to stopvendors from selling their food items and wares in the streets of Banjul. Accordingto our sources, the police at Banjul station last week cracked down onvendors selling food items and goods in the streets of Banjul and confiscated their goods andtables for identification purposes at the court. When contacted, the police public relationofficer, ASP Sulayman Secka, confirmed the story as true, saying“Yes...

UGANDA: Children quit school as aid dries up

GULU Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (IRIN) - Poor learning conditions and lack of food in primary schools have forced thousands of children out of class in northern Uganda over the past three months, local officials said. "The problem has been made worse as displaced primary schools relocate back to their original sites in villages when UN food aid support to primary schools has stopped," Robinson Obot, Gulu District education officer said. Some 11,123 children below 15 years of age, he said,...