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1. FOOD: Price shock hotspots
2. INTERVIEW: Somaliland's vice president on drought
3. HEALTH: Major price cut for rapid TB test
4. SOMALIA: Abdi Mohamed Samatar, "We decided to sacrifice our lives to
safeguard the ministry"
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FOOD: Price shock hotspots
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JOHANNESBURG, 6 August 2012 (IRIN) - As global grain prices begin to
climb, the Sahel countries of West Africa, those in the Horn, and in
central and southern Africa - many of which depend mainly on imported
cereals to feed their people - are most exposed to the impact of more
expensive food, said the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Around the world plenty of people are already living with high food
prices, and more will be joining them.
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INTERVIEW: Somaliland's vice president on drought
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HARGEISA, 7 August 2012 (IRIN) - Years of poor rains have ravaged parts
of the self-declared republic of Somaliland. IRIN spoke to the
territory's vice president, Abdi-Rahman Abdillahi Saylici, about the
effects of the drought, aspirations for international recognition and
the Al-Shabab insurgency.
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HEALTH: Major price cut for rapid TB test
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NAIROBI, 7 August 2012 (PlusNews) - The cost of a highly accurate,
rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been reduced by 40
percent under a new agreement between the US government, the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, and the health financing mechanism, UNITAID.
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SOMALIA: Abdi Mohamed Samatar, "We decided to sacrifice our lives to
safeguard the ministry"
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MOGADISHU, 8 August 2012 (IRIN) - Abdi Mohamed Samatar is a Somali
policeman who has served as a security officer in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs since Somalia last had a functioning government in
1991. Samatar has helped to protect the ministry's offices from looting
during years of violence in the capital, Mogadishu, hopeful that the
offices would someday be put to good use. He shared his experience with
IRIN:
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