When a Devastating Famine Hit the Village in Niger Where I Volunteered, I Felt Powerless. Then I Read This Book (Exclusive)

"I felt that I was looking into the eyes of someone who had already seen ahead, and I somehow knew that something in him ...
Managing Intellectual Property

Access, book famine, and copyright: South Africa’s ‘ABC’ conundrum

Lawyers at Spoor & Fisher provide an overview of how South Africa is navigating copyright and consent requirements to improve access to works for blind and visually impaired people ...
Arizona Daily Wildcat

Most African leaders no-shows at famine aid conference

JOHANNESBURG — Most of Africa’s heads of state failed to turn up Thursday at the first African Union donor conference in Ethiopia to raise money for the Horn of Africa famine, leaving activists ...
Digital Journal

UN conference pledges $2.4 bn to head off Horn of Africa famine

Meteorologists and aid agencies have warned of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in the Horn of Africa - Copyright AFP Jacques DEMARTHON Meteorologists and ...
Digital Spy

Scarlett Johansson: 'East African famine is an emergency'

Scarlett Johansson has met with Somali refugees during a recent visit to Kenya on behalf of Oxfam. Johansson said that she was shocked by the vast famine in the Horn of Africa and called on world ...
Yahoo

African climate summit seeks to shift focus to finance from floods, famine

NAIROBI (Reuters) - How to finance environmental priorities and shift the focus from Africa as victim of floods and famine will be central to the debate at the continent's first climate summit next ...
BBC Africa

New appeal to avert Africa famine

The World Food Programme (WFP) is to renew its call for aid in southern Africa, as famine continues to threaten the lives of millions. Donations amounting to $30m have already been received since the ...