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Kuwait proposes Islamic food fund

  • Kuwait: Wednesday, April 30 - 2008 at 07:50

Kuwait has offered to establish a fund to provide basic foods to poor people in Islamic countries and pledged to donate $100m to kickstart the initative, reported Reuters. The proposed fund would also contribute to programmes to increase agricultural production. Several Arab and Muslim capitals have witnessed protests by people demanding government intervention to ease the impact of rises in the prices of foods.

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