KABUL - Sep 3/04 - IRIN -- The government of Afghanistan and the United Nations launched an emergency appeal on Wednesday to combat drought in the war-ravaged country. According to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), US $71.3 million is needed immediately to combat the worst effects of the drought. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LAHORE - Sep 3/04 - IRIN -- Pakistan has entered a drought phase, the South Asian country's water authority said on Thursday, citing critically low water levels in major reservoirs. The Indus River System Authority (IRSA), which allocates water to the provinces, said that the country's water reservoirs at Tarbela, near Peshawar, capital of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Mangla, 100 km southeast of the capital, Islamabad, contained only half the water they should in the Rabi or winter sowing s . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Sep 13/04 - IRIN -- Food insecurity in the drought-hit pastoral areas of northern, northeastern and northwestern regions of Kenya is worsening even as forecasts by the country's meteorological department show that the October to December short rains in those areas are likely to be poor. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KIGALI - Sep 14/04 - IRIN -- A Rwandan official has down played predictions by the US government-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) that up to almost a half million Rwandans could experience chronic hunger. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KABUL - Sep 15/04 - IRIN -- The UN World Food Programme (WFP) says more than 50 million dollars is needed to tackle the severe drought now facing the country. According to the WFP, some 1.4 million Afghans have been affected by continued drought and crop failures. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Sep 16/04 - SNS -- There is a 50% chance rainfall accumulations over the coming three months will be average across most of Australia, while the country's southeastern regions will likely be drier than normal through the end of December. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 16/04 - SNS -- Supplies of hops in the United States as of September 1 sank 12% below year earlier levels and 6% below 2002 levels to 61.0 million pounds, according to the latest USDA survey. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Sep 17/04 - SNS -- There is a serious risk locust swarms could reinvade northwest Africa from October onwards, warns the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Sep 20/04 - SNS -- Low levels of investment in agriculture in the developing world is hindering its development and making it harder for many parts of the world to meet local food needs, argues the Director-General of the UN Food and AgricultureOrganization (FAO). . . . Continue or visitors click here

JOHANNESBURG - Sep 21/04 - IRIN -- Malawi's winter harvest should ordinarily ease the country's existing food shortage, but there is concern that the new crop could be affected by poor summer rains. . . . Continue or visitors click here

JOHANNESBURG - Sep 29/04 - IRIN -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an appeal for US $78 million to provide emergency aid to 1.85 million people in Lesotho, Malawi and Swaziland in the first half of 2005. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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