This debate is being held under the shadow of a great and deepening Crisis in Southern Africa.

There is the Crisis in Southern Africa, where Western failure to persuade Pretoria to accept independence for Namibia could plunge half a continent into war.

until about seven o'clock there will be a debate on the Crisis in Southern Africa followed by a debate on the need for an independent judicial inquiry into the recent urban disturbances.

The Business for Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 October will now be as follows: WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER-Opposition day (20th Allotted day); until about seven o'clock there will be a debate on the Crisis in Southern Africa followed by a debate on the need for an independent judicial inquiry into the recent urban disturbances.

The House will be debating these matters on Wednesday, and I must repeat the anger that is felt on this side at the failure of the Government to provide time, which has meant that the House will have only half a day on each occasion to debate this profound issue and the Crisis in Southern Africa.

I refer to the motion on the Order Paper for debate this afternoon, the Crisis in Southern Africa, which seeks to conceal the discussion of issues for which Her Majesty's Government bear no obvious or formal responsibility by reference to Britain's isolation in three organisations - the Commonwealth, the European Community and the United Nations.

That was just in the past few years, when the whole world, apart from such dinosaurs, had come to regard Mandela as a world statesman of premier rank and indispensable to the solution of the Crisis in Southern Africa.

6 million in bilateral assistance for the humanitarian Crisis in Southern Africa.

Clare Short: We have made the following commitments for the humanitarian Crisis in Southern Africa, since September 2001.

The WFP plans to deliver 993,000 tonnes of food during the period September 2002 to March 2003 for the humanitarian Crisis in Southern Africa.

Clare Short: The humanitarian Crisis in Southern Africa was discussed at the 18 November meeting of the EU Council of Ministers.

Although I applaud the Government's response to the humanitarian Crisis in Southern Africa, is the noble Baroness satisfied that there is sufficiently rigorous independent auditing of the distribution of food and sufficient reporting of the alleged illegal diversion and profiteering that is taking place?

I went on an Inter-Parliamentary Union trip to Ethiopia before Christmas, and one of the sad things was that because of the Crisis in Southern Africa's food security, donor countries had been reducing food supplies to Ethiopia, which seems scandalous.

The noble Baroness, Lady Northover, spoke of the importance of food security, and the noble Lord, Lord Howell, of the humanitarian Crisis in Southern Africa.

When the Secretary of State for International Development recently gave evidence on the humanitarian Crisis in Southern Africa to the Select Committee, she expressed her concern that the scale of humanitarian feeding operations around the world was reaching such a level that she questioned whether the system could cope.

Thursday 26 June - A debate on the report from the International Development Committee on the humanitarian Crisis in Southern Africa.

I am sure that we all welcome the opportunity to debate the Select Committee's report on the humanitarian Crisis in Southern Africa.

The paragraph reads: "The relative severity of the humanitarian Crisis in Southern Africa is leading to a reassessment of the significance of food shortages to the development prospects for the region.

Asthe hon. Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry) implied, just because there are no skeletons on our screens night after night, that does not mean that there is no looming Crisis in Southern Africa.

I am grateful to the Select Committee on International Development for the enormous amount of work that it has put into its analysis of the humanitarian Crisis in Southern Africa.

Last year, the Select Committee on International Development reported on the humanitarian Crisis in Southern Africa.

The right reverend Prelate made reference to the recent Disasters Emergency Committee report on the humanitarian Crisis in Southern Africa, and the NGOs' response to that crisis.

The Crisis of Southern Africa will get worse and it will go into an abyss of ever-declining living standards and ever-falling life expectancy while we say, "Well, it's nothing to do with us and we cannot do anything about it".