[Pearls Before Swine]

Do we 1)let Nature take her course, taking a lot of innocents with the crazy disrupters, letting the population stabilize at a lower level or 2) Postpone the inevitable with streams of food, medicine, and by importing unfortunate immigrants, setting up an even more horrific future debacle?

[DallasDeb]

All three countries have adult HIV-positive rates approaching 30 percent.

Betcha this is another cause for the decline in food products. Many of the infected are probably farmers and other food workers.

[Razz Barry]

The irony of it all. In Africa we have the descendants of kings, who sold slaves, receiving aid from the descendants of those who were sold. Let nature take it's corpse.[sic]

[Frohickey]

Moreover, no one seems to be doing anything to avert the coming starvation. Officials deny the seriousness of the situation.

Why do anything to solve the problem if, 6 months from now, you can have the United States sending food courtesy of the taxpayers to feed the Southern Africa? There will be no shortage of aid organization, and 'artists and entertainers' will be putting up benefit concerts to raise money.

And the politicians will be buying votes from their farmer constituents by spending taxpayer dollars to buy food for the Southern Africans.

Move along. Nothing here to see. Its all been predetermined.

[Jonathon Spectre]

Africa is what Africans have made it.

[stainlessbanner]

Yet our proud African-Americans on US soil are so caught up in their historical revisionism, removing symbols of heritage, getting more blacks on sitcoms, and doing South Carolina border patrols to pay attention to the "real" Africans.

[river rat]

It would be absolutely racist of us, and disrespectful to the various "African Cultures" to impose our standard of living and our moral/ethnic standards on Africans.

Remember - all cultures are equal, and should be respected in fact and in results..

We horrible benefactors of slavery, should stay the hell out of Africa...
Let Africa finally become Africa as the Africans make it.
Semper Fi

[boris]

"So are yams."

"Eat all you want. We'll make more."

Ananova:

Boy turned into a yam by witchdoctor

Nigerian police are investigating a bizarre claim that a boy has been turned into a yam by a witchdoctor.

Officers have even taken a large yam -- a staple of African diet -- into custody.

Three schoolboys in Maiduguri told their headteacher their friend had been transformed into a vegetable in front of their eyes after accepting a sweet from a mysterious stranger.

The teacher called police who came to the school to 'rescue' the boy, reports The Daily Star.

Now police are trying to track down the man who gave the boy the sweet, according to Divisional Police Officer Amamu Tukur.

As word spread about the schoolboy yam, hundreds of curious people began flocking to the police station to catch a glimpse of it.

Mala Kachalla, an official from the governor's office in Borno state, Nigeria, said: "There has been a mysterious incident here."

Story filed: 09:49 Monday 1st January 2001

--Boris

[Jim Noble]

Looks like the severe drought that plagued the USSR from 1917-1991 has moved south....

[RightOnline]

The continent of Africa is one big sewer; a giant, festering s**thole. Africans are wholly incapable of self-governance (as they've proven time and time and time again). Their "leaders" are nothing more than tinpot, dictatorial, greedy, thieving, murderous thugs who maintain lavish personal lifestyles while their countrymen stumble around like walking skeletons.

Tribal mindsets / warfare, nepotism, primitive "religions", ignorance............These people are reaping what they've sown, and I won't give a cent to their "relief". The place needs to be wiped clean, and mankind should call for a "do over" in Africa.

[Bloody Reaper]

If the USA would stop shipping food to these maggots the hunger and suffering would soon end.

[Osinski]

Maybe the plan is...let the people starve to death and then Africa and its rich natural resources can be sold to the highest bidder, no problem.

[The Right Stuff]

if Mugabe is ousted in next month's election in Zimbabwe ***

Not bloody likely if Z. is anything like Kenya, where corrupt politicians have ruled the roost since Kenyetta died in the 1970's.

Mugabe is a murderous thug.

[arthurus]

This article, as it pertains to Zimbabwe looks very like a report about conditions in the old USSR when the government was starving the peasantry in order to "build socialism" in the cities. There is NO benefit in sending food because it will all go to the troops and the rulers. NONE will go to the peasants. Small groups of peasants will be allowed to hold MREs for a few minutes while the UN photographers take their pictures then they will be taken for the army.

[wattsmag2]

I note that the post fails to mention the impact of policies of countries such as Zimbabwe which have allowed murder of white farmers and disappropriation of their lands.