[expatguy]

Shameful...

The world is laughing at us FRiends.

I think most Americans back home don't have a clue as to how embarrassing this is for many of us overseas.

[az_gila]

...Germany, this month's council president, insisting that the 15-nation panel needs to respond to the effects that climate change has had on Sudan's Darfur region and in Somalia, where the United Nations say famine had struck two areas...

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Ethiopia is between the two countries mentioned (Sudan and Somalia). Does Rice blame Global Warming (err.. Climate Change) for the giant 1888 famine there?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1139963/pdf/medhist00069-0113.pdf

That part of Africa has always had famines.