Posted on 06/23/2002 3:20:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
More corruption. Those in power steal, knowing full well there will be more free money from the west. Well, this time there should not be. Their is a hell of their own creation, repeating itself for the umpteenth time. Let them bail themselves out.
I feel sorry for the basket-weaver mentioned in the above article. It must be hell to look into your child's eyes and tell them there is nothing to eat. The leaders of Africa need to be held accountable. If their people weren't starving perhaps they could overthrow the crooks. I don't know what the solution is, but wasting more money by having it go into these thugs' bank accounts is not the way to go.
Errrrr, aren't eggs, milk, cheese, meat considered food?
Yes but chickens, goats and cows also require food. If all you have is a small patch of ground to keep them on then it would be striped bare in no time. And the food you would have to buy to keep them alive could be better used to feed your family.
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As someone who grew up in rural west Georgia, I was already aware of the fact that livestock does need nutrition in order to produce.
And, it is impossible to judge every situation that is going on in Africa.
However, the last thing I would get rid of if I were facing a shortage of corn or wheat would be goats or chickens, which can be sustained of a varied diet.
Making coffins is booming in Africa. It looks like it will be a growth industry.
July 2001 - Gadaffi bids to be leader of Africa*** THE new African Union (AU), launched at a summit of the Organisation of African Unity in Lusaka last week, is to have its own parliament. Indeed, the parliament building has already been built - in Tripoli. For the idea of the AU is being driven by Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, the Libyan president. Now that his long-standing ambitions for an Arab Union have come to nothing, he is hoping to play a central role in a union of African states instead. The organisation promises to respect democracy and good governance more than the OAU ever did. The snag is that its new parliament will sit in a country that allows no opposition, no free elections, free speech or free press.
In March, Gadaffi announced plans for single a African identity and a union under which the boundaries between states would be scrapped, national armies merged and a single passport introduced. Amazingly, this vision seems to have been largely accepted by African leaders. It has also been decided that, besides the parliament, there will be a pan-African court of justice, a central bank and a common currency. Clearly with the aim of flattering Thabo Mbeki, the South African president, Gadaffi has proposed that the first AU summit should be held in Pretoria next year and should elect a president - presumably Mbeki. ***
November 2001 - Gadaafi to supply Mugabe with death squads***Harare: Zimbabwe- Libya's President Muammar Gadaafi has bought up 20 houses in Zimbabwe which seem likely to be used as safe-houses for death squads supplied by the Libyan dictator as part of his plan to assist the man he sees as his embattled comrade in arms, President Robert Mugabe. In addition Gadaafi has bought Gracelands, the gigantic Harare mansion belonging to Grace Mugabe, the President's young wife. The house is now to become the Libyan Embassy, making it by far the biggest embassy building in Zimbabwe, dwarfing the British and American missions.
In effect Gadaafi seems to be making a bid to save Mugabe which, if successful, would create a virtual Libyan client state at the far end of Africa. Already there is evidence of direct Libyan involvement in the violence which racked Zimbabwean farms in the last ten days.
……….More sinister is the fact that Gadaafi insisted on calling into conclave Harare's small community of Indian Muslims, telling them that they must assist Mugabe's plans by declaring a jihad (holy war) to throw the whites out. If they did not do this, he told the Muslim elders, he would bring in strong arm men from the Pagad movement in Cape Town with which he had close links. There has long been speculation that Gadaafi might have links to Pagad, an extremist Muslim vigilante movement often linked to bombings and murders in the Cape, including bomb attacks on US-linked enterprises such as the Planet Hollywood restaurant on the Cape waterfront, but this is the first open confirmation of the fact.
The bulk of Harare's Muslim community, consisting largely of merchants and professionals, was aghast at this demand and has failed to declare a jihad ,a failure which they believe lies behind the sudden spate of attacks on Muslim shops by Zanu-PF youths in the last ten days. For heaven's sake, said one Muslim merchant, we all do business with whites all the time. We rely on them and most of us are appalled by what Mugabe's doing. It's obvious that those youths who were sent to attack white and Muslim shops were meant to be punishing us for not complying. ***
It's time to break the cycle.
I don't think they could protect their stores or animals from hungry neighbors. Owning them might even be considered dangerous to their health.
I remember First Lady Reagen getting behind food drives for Africa in the 1980's, now twenty years of exactly the same thing!
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