[Sally'sConcerns]

People on that continent are so stressed physiologically from low nutrition, war, lack of access to safe water, no medical care, refugee status, and loss of family members to all of the above that they succumb quickly to whatever disease afflicts them.

Which makes this so ...well, I can't think of the adjective to use, maybe horrific or terrible or awful.

Africa has the natural resources to pull their people out of the poverty and ignorance but because of tribal warfare, dictators and other similar factors, they're doomed to keep up the status quo.

[Max in Utah]

Africa has the natural resources to pull their people out of the poverty and ignorance but because of tribal warfare, dictators and other similar factors, they're doomed to keep up the status quo.

"Biggest Thug Takes All" is the name of the game. You see it played over and over again in most every country on the continent.