"The famine is not a result of drought, it is the result of
leaders more interested in political power and personal gain than
in stopping violence and allowing humanitarian access."
http://www.straitstimes.com/world/uns-famine-appeal-falls-on-deaf-ears
On a related note, here is a reproduced post on this matter.
This American "nate" may seem at first glance to be an alt-right
white supremacist Breitbart Trump supporter, but he does make valid
points. Due to the ongoing and irreconcilable infighting between
dozens (if not hundreds) of armed military groups as well as the
endemic corruption in the governments of the 4 African countries
(whose millions of civilians are starving to death), they're their
own worst enemy (and the real root cause of the famine and
starvation), and there's only so much that external aid (hindered
by the never-ending wars and corrupt government officials) can
do.
5 million people starving to death in Africa
Article :
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/somalia-110-dead-hunger-past-48-hours-drought-151800494.html
And below the article, American "nate" wrote one hell of an
essay as a comment, garnering 90 thumbs up vs 1 thumbs down... I
didn't vote either way on his comment, because I see both sides all
too painfully... this is 1 damn hell of a planet humanity has made
Earth out to become.
nate posted : Afrlca is giving nothing to anyone . . . apart
from EBOLA!
No. lt wiII not do. Even as we see Afrlcan states refusing to
take action to restore something resembIing civiIisation in
Zimbabwe, the begging bowI for EthIopia is being passed around to
us, yet again.
lt is nearIy 25 years since Ethiopia's (and Bob GeIdof's)
famous Feed The WorId campaign, and in that time Ethlopia's
popuIation has grown from 33.5 miIIion to 78 miIIion today.
So why on earth should l do anything to encourage further
catastrophic demographic growth in that country? Where is the
Iogic? There is none. To be sure, there are two things saying that
Iogic doesn't count.
One is my consclence, and the other is the picture, yet
again, of another wide-eyed chiId, yet again, gazing, yet again, at
the camera, which yet again, captures the tragedy of . . .
Sorry. My conscience has toured this territory on foot and
financiaIIy. UnIike most of you, l have been to Ethlopia; Iike most
of you, l have stumped up the Ioot to charities to stop starvation
there. The wide-eyed boy-chiId we saved, 20 years or so ago, is now
a priapic, KaIashnikov-bearing hearty, siring chiIdren whenever the
whim takes him.
There is, no doubt a good argument why we shouId proIong this
predatory and dysfunctionaI economic, sociaI and sexuaI system; but
l do not know what it is. There is, on the other hand, every reason
not to write a coIumn like this.
lt wiII win no friends, and wiII provoke the seIf-righteous
wrath of, weII, the seIf-righteous.
AIas, that wretched country [Ethiopia] is not aIone in its
madness. Somewhere, over the rainbow, Iies SomaIia, another fine
Iand of vioIent, KaIashnikov-toting, khat-chewing,
girI-circumcising, permanentIy tumescent Iayabouts.
lndeed, we now have aImost an entire continent of sexuaIIy
hyperactive indlgents, with tens of miIIions of peopIe who onIy
survive because of heIp from the outside worId.
This dependency has not stimuIated poIiticaI prudence or
commonsense. lndeed, voodoo idiocy seems to be in the ascendant,
with the next president of South Africa being a firm beIiever in
the efficacy of a IittIe tap water on the post-coitaI penls as a
sure preventative against infection. NeedIess to say, poverty,
hunger and societaI meItdown have not prevented idiotic wars
invoIving Tigre, Uganda, Congo, Sudan, SomaIia, Eritrea
etcetera.
Broad brush-strokes, to be sure. But broad brush-strokes are
often the way that history paints its gaudier, if more decisive,
chapters. Japan, China, Russia, Korea, PoIand, Germany, Vietnam,
Laos and Cambodia in the 20th century have endured worse broad
brush-strokes than aImost any part of Africa.
They are now -- one way or another -- virtuaIIy aII giving
aid to or investing in Africa, whereas Africa, with its vast
savannahs and its Iush pastures, is giving aImost nothing to
anyone, apart from AlDS.
MeanwhiIe, Africa's peopIes are outstripping their resources,
and causing catastrophic ecoIogicaI degradation. By 2050, the
popuIation of Ethlopia wiII be ;77 miIIion: The equivaIent of
France, Germany and BeneIux today, but Iocated on the parched and
increasingIy protein-free wasteIands of the Great Rift
VaIIey.
So, how much sense does it make for us activeIy to increase
the aduIt popuIation of what is aIready a vastIy over-popuIated,
environmentaIIy devastated and economicaIIy dependent
country?
How much moraIity is there in saving an Ethlopian chiId from
starvation today, for it to survive to a Iife of brutaI
circumcision, poverty, hunger, vioIence and sexuaI abuse, resuIting
in another haIf-dozen such wide-eyed chiIdren, with comparabIy
joIIy IittIe Iives ahead of them? Of course, it might make you feel
better, which is a prime reason for so much charity. But that is
not good enough.
For seIf-serving generosity has been one of the curses of
Africa. lt has sustained poIiticaI systems which wouId otherwise
have coIIapsed.
lt proIonged the Eritrean-Ethlopian war by nearIy a decade.
lt is inspiring BiII Gates' programme to rid the continent of
maIaria, when, in the aImost compIete absence of personaI
seIf-discipIine, that disease is one of the most efficacious forms
of popuIation-controI now operating.
lf his programme is successfuI, tens of miIIions of chiIdren
who wouId otherwise have died in infancy wiII survive to aduIthood,
he boasts. Oh good: then what? l know. Let them aII come here. Yes,
that's an idea.
