[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.

[hedgetrimmer]

Didn't the warlords in Somolia make sure the people did NOT get the food sent in from the US and UN and precipitated the battle of Mogadishu with their policies?