Posted on 04/29/2013 12:06:38 PM PDT by LucyT
The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and under, according to a new report to be published this week that more than doubles previous death toll estimates, officials told The Associated Press.
The aid community believes that tens of thousands of people died needlessly because the international community was slow to respond to early signs of approaching hunger in East Africa in late 2010 and early 2011.
The toll was also exacerbated by extremist militants from al-Shabab who banned food aid deliveries to the areas of south-central Somalia that they controlled.
Quicker action wouldn't have prevented the deaths in areas controlled by al-Shabab. The militant group prevented many men from leaving the famine-hit region and allowed no emergency food aid in.
Thousands of Somalis walked dozens or hundreds of miles to reach camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. Countless numbers of families lost children or elderly members along routes that became known as roads of death.
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Thousands of Somalis walked dozens or hundreds of miles to reach camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. Countless numbers of families lost children or elderly members along routes that became known as roads of death.
More Man-Made Disaster. It wasn’t the slow response of the haves of the world, it was the intentional genocide on the part of the Islam community
And millions of Africans, mostly children, died because a Left-wing propagandist, Rachel Carson, authored a book condemning DDT, thus leaving them defenseless against malaria. Listening to the Left kills people.
> ...exacerbated by extremist militants from al-Shabab who banned food aid deliveries...
More Muslim terrorism.
Islam kills.
What’s the news? Who gives a shiite?
Dreadful. RIP.
>because the international community was slow to respond
If you live in a desolate craphole like Somali, you should consider birth control rather than depending on the kindness of others to take care of you. Same thing for all of the other inhospitable countries.
Double whammy, the western Gov’s steal from their citizens to give to the tyrants in oppressed countries and the tyrants turn out to be direct enemies of everyone.
Somali has been at war since 1991... that’s why they can’t feed themselves. It’s also a Muslim country.
There’s no reason to subsidize another Muslim slaughter. If we stop feeding their children they will be forced to support their own families. Maybe use the money they spend on war and divert it to food. They made a little hellhole they can un-make it...
The moral choice here is to give them 3 months of ‘help’ then tell them no more help until they stop fighting. And even then - with all the corruption that goes on in Muslim countries - there shouldn’t be any more ‘help’ unless there’s an earthquake or a natural disaster. We’re nuts to be involved in any way - the US, UN, World bank - all the ‘feel good’ stuff - stuff that’s probably based on bribes and kickbacks - needs to stop.
We need to stop treating warring Muslim counties like other countries. They do what they do because they like it...
Did I mention that it’s a civil war?
All Famines in the last century are caused by government. Period.
Can’t we sign them up for food stamps?
UNICEF and C.A.R.E. and all those hundreds of feel-good liberal giveaway programs including the delivery of free medical care did nothing but create a HUGE population bubble by removing the natural balance those stone-age folks had.
The failure to provide any infrastructure change to support the huge population bubble has its inevitable Malthusian results.
It’s like the guy who put out 50 pounds of cat food every day for years and was surprised one day not to be able to enter his own house.
True story. Something like 2,000 cats in there. They were eating each other.
Oh great. Does this mean we have to take in another 70,000 goat-f**king Somali jihadists?
There’s no oil in Somalia, what difference does it make?
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