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For Ethiopia's famine survivors, new drought stirs hunger and fear

2016-03-01 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: When drought and pests decimated their farm in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region, 10-year-old Eseye Tiruneh and her family boarded a bus, fleeing the starvation all around them. It was 1985 and Ethiopia was in the grip of its worst famine, which killed around one million people. Ethiopia's communist regime resettled Eseye's family in Wollega, over 1,000 km (620 miles) southwest, as part of an ambitious plan to move more than a million people from the drought-affected north, where it was fighting...

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Regulators wrong to fear price rises from consolidation Vodafone CEO

2016-02-22 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

Colao backs European Commission on Denmark decision, sees no problem with planned Italian merger, but warns of conflicts in U.K.

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In coal-powered China, electric car surge fuels fear worsening smog

2016-01-27 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Automakers' latest projections for rapid growth of China's green car market have added to concerns of worsening smog as the uptake of electric vehicles powered by coal-fired grids races ahead of a switch to cleaner energy. Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) plans 15 new-energy models over 3-5 years, its China chief told a green car conference in Beijing on Saturday, predicting - like the government - that Chinese production of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles would grow almost six times to 2 million...

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