Is the company ready to listen to the poor farmers' plea over there? The Seattle Times reported that Starbucks has opened its first store in Africa on Thursday. The Cairo location will be run by Kuwait-based company M.H. Alshaya, which also operates more than 170 Starbucks stores in Kuwait, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan and Turkey. The coffee shop chain opened its first stores in Brazil about a month ago and has plans to open locations in India and Russia in 2007. The poor coffee farmers in Africa are still asking Starbucks to honor its commitments. Few weeks back, The Standard , posted here , reported that "angry farmers from a coffee factory in Nyeri District have blasted officials of the Starbucks Coffee Company for refusing to respond to their questions on a project the multinational is undertaking in the area.” According to the report, Mr John Kabira, a farmer said "Starbucks interests are only in making profits from our c...