30 September 2005 (Friday)
- United Nations World Food Programme warns that a sharp increase in malnutrition rates and rapidly rising maize prices in Malawi could push the number of vulnerable people in need of food aid up to five million. (Reuters)
- Egypt is deciding to take precautionary measures against any possible attack by swarms of locusts. (Reuters)
- United Nations calls on Uganda to ban the practices of child sacrifice and female genital mutilation in the country. The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child also urges the Kampala government to step up efforts in preventing youth abduction by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). (Reuters)
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