Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Hungry Namibia

IPS (March 24)
"Don't talk about food prices in Namibia. Wedged between costly imports from South Africa and failing projects to achieve food security, Namibians are upset, and hungry"

"Fifty Namibian dollars - five U.S. dollars - for a 10 kg sack of mealie meal... in a country where the UNDP's latest survey found 60 percent live on less than two U.S. dollars a day, and the inhabitants of Havana squatter camp are more likely to be in the 35 percent that survive on less than a dollar.
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