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4 days ago | 
allafrica.com | Elizabeth Bryant |Mercy Juma
American farmers play a key role in WFP's hunger-fighting mandateDoug Keesling's wheat field in Chase, Kansas - America's 'wheat state' - stretches as far as the eye can see, the young plants beginning to sprout ears of grain. But their green promise is deceiving. Keesling, a fifth-generation farmer, is worried. "We've had plenty of sun," he says, "we need rain now.
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4 weeks ago | 
fr.allafrica.com | Elizabeth Bryant |Evelyn Fey |Lena Von Zabern
Le PAM se mobilise pour fournir une aide alimentaire à des millions de personnes au bord du précipiceLa faim et l'horrible conflit soudanais ont poussé Abdelminime Moussa à quitter son pays. Assis dans le sable du camp de réfugiés de Koursigue, dans l'est du Tchad, ce père soudanais raconte comment sa famille a fui les assaillants qui encerclaient leur village du Darfour-Nord, juste de l'autre côté de la frontière.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
pmg-sc.com | Elizabeth Bryant
KERSHAW, S.C. — Andrew Jackson Middle School has been awarded a 2024-25 Distinguished Arts Program Grant from the S.C. Arts Commission. AJMS grant application, entitled Collaborating and Making New, provides $18,000 for classroom supplies, teacher professional development and artist residencies. kAmpD A2CE @7 E96 8C2?E[ }2D9G:==6 4@>A@D6C v2CC6EE qC66K6 H:== 36 4@>A@D:?8 2 A:646 @7 >FD:4 7@C E96 py|$ 49@CFD 2?5 36 :? C6D:56?4J 7@C EH@ 52JD :?
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
pmg-sc.com | Elizabeth Bryant
LANCASTER, S.C. — Lancaster County Board of Elections certified the election of two new members and the re-election of one member to the Lancaster County School District Board of Trustees on Nov. 8. They are Tyrom Faulkner, District 2, who was re-elected, and newcomers Revery Johnson, District 4, and Olivia Hann, District 6. kAmp C646AE:@? H:== 36 96=5 E@ 9@?@C E96D6 6=64E65 >6>36CD 7C@> c E@ cib_ A]>] %F6D52J[ }@G] `h :?
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
reliefweb.int | Jonathan Dumont |Abubakar Garelnabei |Elizabeth Bryant
Women at Zamzam camp in North Darfur in 2022, where famine has now been confirmed. They once received WFP food assistance – but fighting has cut off humanitarian access here and elsewhere in Sudan.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
pmg-sc.com | Elizabeth Bryant
LANCASTER, S.C. — The Indian Land Middle School Band has received the South Carolina Band Directors Association Outstanding Performance Award for the 2023-24 school year. This is the highest achievement given to bands in South Carolina. Qualifications for this award come from student participation and success in Region and All-State Bands, Large Group Concert Performance Assessment, and Solo and Small Ensemble Assessments.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Marie Dasylva |Elizabeth Bryant
Violence, economic turmoil, climate change and shrinking humanitarian assistance among factors propelling food insecurityDialo Koumba knew the violence spreading across her homeland would someday hit her village in western Burkina Faso. But when armed assailants killed her neighbours one night, she and her three co-wives ditched careful plans to sell their livestock before fleeing. "Our departure was brutal," recalls Kouma, 50, who has since joined her husband in northern Côte d'Ivoire.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
ukraine.un.org | Niema Abdelmageed |Antoine Vallas |Elizabeth Bryant
By Niema Abdelmageed, Antoine Vallas and Elizabeth BryantWinter has cast an icy grip over the eastern Ukrainian village of Kamianka. But not so long ago, residents Volodymyr Korniich and his wife Liudmyla would have been looking ahead to spring planting. Over nearly a quarter century, the couple has slowly expanded their farming business, growing a mix of grains, vegetables and watermelon, and raising chickens, cows and pigs. But today, their work has ground to a halt.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | María Gallar |Martin Karimi |Elizabeth Bryant |Gabriela Vivacqua
From Bolivia to Zambia, the World Food Programme is giving women the tools to cope with weather extremes that threaten livelihoodsTheir faces smeared with a traditional mussiro mask to enhance their skin, the women stoop to pluck shellfish from the mudflats of Ibo Island, off northern Mozambique. Dropped into plastic buckets, the dripping harvest will later be cooked and processed for sale, buttressing their incomes - and their independence.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Elizabeth Bryant
Kadidja Abakar is haunted by the people she left behind, after fleeing her home in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region. "We saw dead bodies along the way," recalls the mother of six. "The wounded lay in their blood, crying for help. But there was nobody to assist them."Today, Abakar and her children are safe, after having crossed into eastern Chad last July. Other family members have since joined them at an overcrowded tent camp in the border town of Adre. But that is their only comfort.
