HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: barnhart@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Mr. Aaron Barnhart)
Subject: IPS:NUTRITION: CHANGING DIETS AFFECT AFRICAN ECONOMIES
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:08:41 GMT
Organization: Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.

Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved.  Permission to re-
print within 7 days of original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.

Reference: Trade & Finance
Title: NUTRITION: CHANGING DIETS AFFECT AFRICAN ECONOMIES


rome, dec 8 (ips/baher kamal) --  changes in eating habits in
developing countries have had a negative impact not only on their
peoples' nutritional state but also on their economies , with
africa alone having to spend 20 billion dollars to import wheat
and rice in the 1980s.

the continent is expected to import almost 30 billion dollars'
worth of these cereals in the 1990s.

the change in dietary habits is directly related to economic
and social policies implemented by third world countries, samir
miladi, a specialist in food policies in africa and the middle
east told ips.

in many cases, governments of developing countries continued
to encourage the production of export crops to the detriment of
traditional food crops after their nations gained independence,
explained miladi, who is among experts attending the dec. 5 - 12
international conference on nutrition in rome.

in the process, the state replaced the former colonial firms
which used to buy and market these export products, but, in most
cases, it has not paid local producers fair prices, he said.

at the same time, urban centres have been acquiring increasing
importance. they have been obtaining much more attention than
rural areas in the sphere of social services, like education,
health and infrastructure in general.

this has widened the gap between towns and rural areas and
contributed to migration towards urban centres, miladi said.

as a result, more and more farmers have stopped producing
traditional food crops and, moreover, they have become users of
consumer goods, most of which are imported.

in africa, crops like cassava and sorghum were abandoned and
replaced mainly by rice and flour, used to make so-called ''white
bread.''

this happened, for example, in sudan, where sorghum, which
used to be a staple, has given ground as more and more wheat is
consumed, while rice is now an essential part of the diet in
egypt, where it was practically unknown.

in gabon, wheat replaced cassava and in guinea bissao, rice
has taken the place of maize.

another factor which conttributed to the change in dietary
habits was foreign aid for the ''new'' products and state
subsidies which kept the lid on prices of ''new'' staples, such
as wheat bread. (more)
----


the changes in eating habits led to increased food imports and
this has put added pressure on national economies, miladi
explained.

imported foods account for as much as 40 percent of the total
imports in some african countries, he said.

and the situation has been aggravated by falling prices for
exported raw materials on international markets, miladi added.
(end/ips/trd/so/bk-in/kb/92)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: "AJIBOLA.A..OSINUBI"@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Ajibola A Osinubi")
Subject: Who is on this network from Kenya?
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:31:41 GMT

Regarding joe's comment, I think this is good.

Ajibola.Osinbi@OFFICE.Wang.com
From: philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: Dangerous Statements ....:
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:20:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: shannon.1992Dec15.142052.11349
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Wits University
X-Xxdate: Tue, 15 Dec 92 16:13:13 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12

In article <BzAwB5.60I@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> kauta,
kautaj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
>philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Philip Machanick) writes:
>>Just as well the boers aren't being allowed to run the country any
>>more.
>
>I take it blaks have started running their own affairs then.....

This is not exactly the same thing.
--
Philip Machanick
Computer Science Dept, Univ of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa
philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za  phone: 27 (11) 716-3759  fax: 339-7965
From: olinga@sol.cs.uni-sb.de (Guy Francois Olinga)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Faut-il desarmer les Bandits Somaliens?
Date: 15 Dec 1992 09:47:21 GMT
Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes,Rechenzentrum
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.cs.uni-sb.de
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Salut a vous!

Je ne sais pas si vous avez vu les images que la television francaise
nous a retransmises hier soir et ce matin: La lapidation d' une jeune
femme somalienne soupsonnee d' avoir eu des relations sexuelles avec 
un soldat francais. Les Somaliens ne supporteraient pas que les soldats
etrangers leur prennent leur femmes en meme temps qu' ils risqueraient
de leur apporter des maladies!

Ce qui en fait m' a le plus choque c' est le fait que les soldats
francais aient pratiquement livre la femme aux griffes du lion. En
effet, elle avait bien cherche refuge chez eux et il l' ont fait 
assoir dans l' une de leurs voitures. Comment expliquer qu' a un
certain moment ils l' aient fait descendre pour la livrer a ses
boureaux. Et pendant qu'on la lapidait, ces soldats de la paix 
regardaient sans reaction. On se croirait dans un cirque! L' excuse
officielle de leur comportement est qu' ils ne sont pas la pour
desarmer les bandits somaliens mais plutot pour permettre la 
distribution de l' aide humanitaire.

Si telle est la seule mission des americains en somalie, alors
je crois qu' ils devraient la cesser des aujourd' hui. Ca ne suffit
pas de nourrir les Somaliens (jusqu' au 20.1.93?), et de s' en aller
en les laissant a nouveau a la merci des bandits armes un peu comme la
femme lapidee (On ne sait pas si elle vit encore!). La pricipale
mission de l' ONU devrait etre le desarmement des bandes armees
somaliennes. Ce n' est qu' a ce prix que l' aide humanitaire
parviendra aux somaliens et qu' ils pourront esperer vivre a nouveau
en paix. Encore que ceci ne sera pas facile! Les bandits ont en fait
tout le temps du monde de cacher leur armes en attendant le depart
des soldats etrangers pour reprendre leurs activites. 

Il est temps que cesse cette situation. Les somaliens ont besoin
de paix. Pour cela il ne suffit pas de leur donner du riz; il faut
aussi desarmer ceux qui compromettent cette paix.


----

Guy F. Olinga   Technische Fakultaet
		Fachbereich Informatik
		Universitaet des Saarlandes-RFA

		email: olinga@sol.cs.uni-sb.de
		       olinga@minisun.cs.uni-sb.de
From: agesa@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Richard Ugunzi Agesa)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: What happened to the Kenya elections
Date: 12 Dec 1992 01:11:27 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.30

In article <1992Dec11.211356.14092@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> canderso@nyx.cs.du.edu
(Chuck Anderson) writes:
>I was busy with several things for the past few weeks and didn't take
>the time to read this newsgroup.  I also noticed that Dec 3rd went by
>and I haven't heard anything about the elections.
>
>Were they postponed or did they take place.  US newspapers are so full
>of information on Africa.  NOT!  Marines in Somalia is about all.

Elections in Kenya were postponed to Dec 29th. A successfull petition filed by 
the opposition to the high court, resulted in the elections being 
re-scheduled. Quite an achivement by the opposition, given the attitude of the 
present government towards democratic elections!

-- 
R. Ugunzi Agesa     |    agesa@csd4.csd.uwm.edu     | Office: (414) 229-4603  
Univ of Wisconsin   |    agesa@convex.csd.uwm.edu   |         (414) 229-4812
Dept of Economics   | 
Milwaukee, WI 53201 | Sometimes I just sit and think, other times I just sit.
From: jnr@igc.apc.org (Jim Rosenfield)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Shall I Continue Newswires?
Date: 13 Dec 92 19:36:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1471700305:000:686
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!jnr    Dec 13 11:36:00 1992


From: Jim Rosenfield <jnr>
Subject: Shall I Continue Newswires?

*** Shall I Continue with Newswire Stories on Hunger? ***

For the past three months I have been posting numerous stories
on hunger issues culled from the AP, UPI, Reuters and Washington Post.

Originally, the idea was to empower those who were pressuring
leaders for action on Somalia.  Since this phase of our work seems
to be complete, I need some feedback from readers.

I need to hear if this work has been useful to you and to know 
if you want me to continue posting the stories.  I would also welcome 
any comments on the form, content or whatever...

Please attach responses to this topic or e-mail me directly.
From: cochrane@ae.agecon.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: Western politians and human rights
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:27:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #R:1gk85rINN4gk@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de:530340712:MAILQUEUE-101.921217092605.640@a:75671144:000:1827
Nf-From: ae.agecon.wisc.edu!cochrane    Dec 17 07:27:00 1992


From: "Jeffrey A. Cochrane" <COCHRANE@ae.agecon.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: cochrane@ae.agecon.wisc.edu
Subject: Western politians and human rights in Africa

ORIGINALLY FROM SOC.CULTURE.AFRICAN:
From: krallman@sol.cs.uni-sb.de (Matthias Krallmann)
Subject: Western politians and human rights in Africa
> one thing I sometimes get angry about is the behaviour of Western
> politians towards certain African governments that obviously
> don't care much about human rights and democratic structures
> in their country although they normally state the opposite.

You should read the recent quite racist cable from American Ambassador
Smith Hempstone in Nairobi.

American ambassadors, particularly to "unimportant" places like Kenya
and elsewhere in Africa, are often chosen because they were the biggest
contributors to a President's political campaign.  These people are
typically not career foreign service officers--not to say that the
career people are any better, particularly given a recent
racist experience I had with a consular officer in Freetown.

It will be interesting to see how Clinton chooses his ambassadorial
corps.  Will he be any different?  Perhaps a letter-writing campaign on
this matter would be appropriate.
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Department of Agricultural Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: hakim@unssun.nevada.edu (Ashraf Al Hakim)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: NEED INFORMATION.
Date: 16 Dec 92 06:08:22 GMT
Reply-To: hakim@unssun.UUCP (Ashraf Al Hakim)
Distribution: soc.culture.african
Organization: University of Nevada-Reno

Dear Netters,

First of all let me wish all of you a very happy new year. I need to
find out the e-mail adress of the University of Zambia in Lusaka Zambia.
If any one of you know any body's adress at the university, please e-mail
it to me, or call me (702) 324-0159.

All help rendered shall very greatly be appreciated.

Ashraf Hakim.
From: depeche@cs.mcgill.ca (Acme Instant Dehydrated Boulder Kit)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: wanted: local news for south africa
Date: 18 Dec 92 00:07:16 GMT
Organization: MADD - Dyslexics against Mad Mothers

In article <9212142303.AA27849@top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Roger L Bilisoly <rbilisol@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>my first attempt failed, sorry.
>i have a friend who recently moved from south africa to
>columbus, ohio and is interested in getting local news
>about south africa. stories about the violence there are
>easily obtainable here in the u.s., but what about day
>to day news? is there an archive that one can ftp news
>from? is there a way to access and filter IPS via internet?

If I were you, I'd just subscribe to the Meekly Wail.. That way you'd
also get the manchester weekly guardian, and everything would be included
in one neat little package.

They got a special discount rate for ex-pat south-african students, if I'm
not mistaken.


-- 
| Alan Ezust    depeche@cs.mcgill.ca   McGill University Computer Science    |
|------------------------Montreal, Quebec, Canada (?)------------------------|
|  I'm not much of a night person. I'm *definitely* not a morning person.    |
|  I'm not really an afternoon person either. Does this mean I'm a nobody?   |
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: DEMO VS U.S. IN SOMALIA 12/21 NYC
From: Amos.Omondi@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Amos Omondi)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:34:48 GMT
Organization: Inter-Galactic Space-Probe, No. 42

In article <6VFuVB1w165w@nyxfer.uucp> nyt@nyxfer.UUCP writes:
>
>Subject: DEMO VS U.S. IN SOMALIA 12/21 NYC
>From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)
>
>
>Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
>
>Received Dec 15, 1992
>
>                   INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER
>                       39 West 14th Street
>                           New York, NY
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DEC 9
>
>CONTACT: PAUL AHUJA                       PH: (212) 633-6646
>     or: BRIAN BECKER                    FAX: (212) 633-2889
>
>       DEMONSTRATION TO PROTEST U.S. OCCUPATION OF SOMALIA


This will be a demonstration by people who are 10.000 miles from Somalia 
and who at the time will probably be full of cheap hamburgers, french fries, 
and coca-cola.  

Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: mukasa@panix.com (Michael K Mukasa)
Subject: Re: Dangerous Statements ....:
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:32:45 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

In <580@blue.cis.pitt.edu> pmmst8+@pitt.edu (Paul M Mweene) writes:

>In article <1992Dec12.235244.16057@Princeton.EDU> mbarroso@watson.princeton.edu (Margarida Barroso) writes:

>le. The gist of the illustration was that languages like spanish and portuguese
>are impedements and no more of economic facilitators than say, Lingala or Hausa
>or tonga. As Africans we stand to gain by all adopting english as our language
>(more so than if we used even Swahili). We should exercise our priviledge to
>choose since all these are equally foreign to us. As Africans we should begin t
>o think more in terms of profit than of maintaining unecessary political allia
>nces. 


>makala
> 


Here I have to disagree with Makala.  I believe we should be promoting an
African language or two to be spoken throught Africa.  This will very
quickly help us economically because it will help facilitate inter-African
trade.  The promoting of English becase of economic links to the western
world and thus promoting our growth (industrially), will make us more and
more dependent on the west.  Japan has done rather well without having a
large percentage of the population learn English.  The reverse is true
though.  Nowadays more people are learning japanese so that they can get
some of that money and trade.
Africa as a whole has a rather low literacy rate and we should be
encouraging the learning of say (Both Kiswahili and Hausa) in schools so
that people will travel from west to east to south (i.e Africa), from
francophone to angophone and be understood perfectly.  The strenghth gained
through the unity of understanding will go a long way towards aiding in our
development.

My two cents,

Kiggundu.
From: Guest@comm.mgmt.purdue.edu (john lagman )
Subject: LIBERIA
Summary: WHAT'S UP WITH LIBERIA
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:00:36 GMT
Distribution: WORLDWIDE
Organization: Krannert Graduate School of Management
Keywords: LIBERIA

Has anyone heard any news from Liberia?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: heidi@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Heidi de Wet)
Subject: Re: Dangerous Statements ....:
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 08:00:09 GMT
Organization: Dept of Elec Eng, UCT

pmmst8+@pitt.edu (Paul M Mweene) writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.142549.6286@hippo.ru.ac.za> apj@beldin.sun.ac.za (Andries Dippenaar) writes:
>>
>>I'm no great expert either, but at the moment the law limits private
>>citizens (ie. *anybody*) to a maximum of 14 firearms per person.
>>Only in very special cases may that limit be extended.  The latter is
>>mainly for gun collectors.  Also, when applying for a licence, proof
>>Andries
>
>Except ofcourse that Blacks ARE not citizens of South Africa according to
>boer law.

Well, doubtless you'll be delighted to know that the KwaZulu Police 
have been issuing automatic rifles to Zulu headmen.  The only problem
is, they're mostly used on ANC supporters, not on whites, and everyone
in South Africa seems to think that the endemic violence in the country
is a bad thing...  They obviously don't have the clear perspective that 
you've gained from being in the States.

-- 
The net is like a vast sea of lutefisk with tiny dinosaur brains embedded 
in it here and there. Any given spoonful will likely have an IQ of 1, but 
occasional spoonfuls may have an IQ more than six times that!
                                                     - James 'Kibo' Parry
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: n36ia@pnet16.cts.com (Et3 Francis)
Subject: Looking for Internet Access in the Ivory coast, Mali area...
Organization: People-Net [pnet16], NCTAMS EASTPAC
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:16:03 GMT

Ever since getting stationed here in Hawaii I have been keeping in touch with
me father via Internet. It really helps to keep down the monthly phone bills.
Now my dad wants to get in touch with some people over in Africa and I was
wondering if it was possible to do this using Internet or some other Net. It
would really help cut down on a lot of bills that have a habit of piling up
around this time of year. Thanks in advance for any help you can give...
                                        Brian

"who do you want to be today..."
From: shemlon@occlusal.rutgers.edu (Shiyghan Shemlon)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: Faut-il desarmer les Bandits Somaliens?
Date: 16 Dec 92 00:03:05 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I am 100% in support of the idea that Somali thugs and hooligans be
disarmed. This is the only way of assuring lasting peace and the
construction of a "civile" society that is presently dead. If this is
not done and if the UN does not find a political solution to Somalia's
present stalemate, operation RESTORE HOPE would have been an exercise
in futility and a PR dance for the "almighty" US of A.

SHEMLON WO WAN WAN VIBAN
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
From: aali@vax1.umkc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: u.s. somalia
Date: 11 Dec 92 21:51:29 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.umkc.edu

In article <1471700288@igc.apc.org>, Jim Rosenfield <jnr@igc.apc.org> writes:
> 
> Do you think this U.S. psuedo-military action could actually
> succeed in calming the violent situation so that relief could be
> delivered to the starving Somalis?  What kind of action would you
> recommend, now, to ameliorate the suffering?  Is it your view that
> this military intervention should not be attempted or that it is
> a smokescreen for some motive other than humanitarian relief?  If so, what?
> 

There is no question the U.S led military intervention will help the 
starving Somalis in the thort-run and ,indeed, most of Somalis/world welcome
such action.  However, the big question is what is going to happen after the 
food delivery to the hungry sticken areas is ensured.  I tend to think that 
the kind of regime that emerges in Somalia will greatly depend on what
the U.S. does or doesn't in there.   For any meaningful solution to take
place in Somalia, a complete disarment of all major faction is imparative.
without such disarment, there can be no peace because of the mistrust 
among warring groups and the over_ambitious irresponsible warlords.
Unfortunately, there are some indications, already, that the U.S. 
have not interest in disarming the warlords. An example of this was
shown by the fact that the marines found a huge pale of weapons belonging
to warlord Aidid and no effort were made to seize the arms.  If fact, there 
seem to be an agreement between the U.S envoy and the worlords that the 
marines may disarms others but not the two opposing U.S.C factions in
Mogadishu.  Further,  the reported talks between Aidid and Mahdi hosted
by the U.S envoy indicate that the U.S starting to view them as part of
the solution rather than the problem.  These are the same men, specially 
Aidid,  who are directly responsible for deaths for hundrends of thousands
of people.
On the question of possible U.S. hidden agenda on Somalia,  it is clear the
motive is of humanitarian in nature. My fear is that the U.S. will stick to
its declared mission statemt: create secure path for the relief operation
then withdraw.  That will not help us (Somalis) one bit in the long_run.   


    Ali
From: progers@igc.apc.org (Peter Rogers)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: NEED INFORMATION.
Date: 18 Dec 92 11:30:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #R:equinox.unr.edu:5088:cdp:1471700312:000:328
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!progers    Dec 18 03:30:00 1992


Mark Bennett is the Director of the Computer Centre at the the University of
Zanbia and the SYSOP of a FidoNet node there.  His e-mail address is 
mark.bennett@f1.n761.z5.fidonet.org.  Good luck.

Peter Rogers
Dept. of Political Science and Center for African Studies
University of Florida
Internet: progers@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu
From: jnr@igc.apc.org (Jim Rosenfield)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: Proposals to Aid Somalia?????
Date: 18 Dec 92 05:02:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #R:cdp:1471700289:cdp:1471700309:000:1719
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!jnr    Dec 17 21:02:00 1992


I heard today, at a press conference for the release of UNICEF's
The State of the World's Children Report 1993, that only five
years ago about 17% of children were immunized for the major
childhood diseases and that today, as the result of a concerted
international campaign,about 80% of all children, worldwide, have
been so immunized.  The projections are that this phenomenal,
historic achievement will have a very fast return on the
investment in purely monetary terms.  In addition, theoretically
it shoudl help drop the planetary growth rate (when the IMR falls,
the growth rate falls a few years later).  Yes, I think the pure
heartfelt concern for our neighbors is a powerful motivator, but
the added dimension of cost justification brings many palyers into
the picture who would not otherwise participate in such visionary
projects.  A further motivation might be that bringing about a
society in which advanced and intentional forms of cooperation are
used to handle huge intractable problems that we thought could not
be tackled, like permanently ending hunger on a worldwide basis,
is a vision which can attract and motivate millions of new and
powerful participants.  At the 1989 World Summit for Children 89
heads of state gathered and laid plans for major reductions in
infant and child mortality and pleged major advances in conditions
for children.  Some of these plans are now being put into
operation.  This is a revolutionary accomplishment, the level of
cooperation and dedication on such large scale problems.
Something is going on here beyond humanitarian idealism.  This is
the beginning of a new kind of order, an advanced way for humans
to live on planet earth.  This is worth bringing about.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african