Famine in Africa

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We are selfish pigs. Arguing about nonsensical issues like politics, indulging our greedy and narcissistic selves in a decadent world of pornography,....etc.....

In the meantime, thousands (many of them ********) are at immediate risk of starvation in the horn of Africa:

Somalis flee famine along ‘roads of death’

By Sudarsan Raghavan, Published: July 25

DOLO, Somalia — The displaced first began coming through Dolo, just a few miles from the Ethiopian border, in March. Now, the trickle has become a flood. The new arrivals clutch small bags of clothes and other meager possessions. Their ******** are thin, some emaciated. Almost every ***** appears small for his or her age. But they are the fortunate ones: They have survived their journeys, at least for now.

To get here, many have walked scores of miles, some more than a hundred. Almost everyone has ****** bodies of *******, ******** and the elderly — anyone too weakened by hunger to escape with their lives.

Tens of thousands of Somalis, mostly women and ********, are on the move, fleeing the worst famine in a generation in this Horn of Africa nation. Resilient Somalis have endured two decades of civil war and two consecutive seasons of failed rains. Now, after their livestock and crops have died, and with their babies suffering from malnutrition and food prices skyrocketing, they have given up any pretense that they can survive on their own.

Any hope of the world helping them has also faded. Al-Shabab, the militia linked to al-Qaeda that rules large swaths of famine-stricken southern Somalia, has barred international aid agencies from delivering assistance to regions it controls. It has heavily taxed ordinary Somalis on food and other goods, exacerbating the crisis. In fact, the militia denies that a famine is taking place, disputing the United Nations’ contention that tens of thousands of Somalis, mostly ********, have died because of it.

Yet nearly 170,000 Somalis have fled to already crowded refugee camps in neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia since January, according to U.N. figures released Monday. In Kenya, about 1,300 Somalis are arriving daily; an average of 1,700 are entering Ethiopia. Most emerge from their grueling journeys bearing scars that probably will not fade anytime soon.

Waiting in vain for help

Xukun Muhumed walked more than 130 miles to seek help for her thin baby, sickened by hunger. As she trudged slowly across the bleak landscape, ****** by famine and drought, she wondered whether her ****** ***, Sadik, would survive.

“If Allah wants him to die, he will die,” said Muhumed, her voice dropping. “I have seen many people who have died along the way.”

“These are becoming roads of death,” Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, told reporters in Nairobi over the weekend. “Over half the women I talked to had to leave ******** to die or had ******** die.”

“In the Horn [of Africa], we could lose a generation,” she added. “Those that survive could be affected deeply.”

On Sunday, Muhumed held her frail *** in this border town, where they had arrived a day earlier after a month-long journey. Sadik was listless, his eyes half closed, his skin leathery from malnutrition. Moments earlier, he had ******* the little milk he had swallowed.

There were no doctors, no aid agencies distributing food. Many of the new arrivals sat under trees or on vacant patches of land, waiting for help.

Even more tragic, Al-Qaeda and its many affiliates are preventing aid from being brought in. Just another reason to despise their doctrine and everything they represent. If "Allah" supports these types of efforts, he can go fuck himself as far as I am concerned (I'm not saying he does....they are ).

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Such a dichotomy....America throws away enough food every day to feed the entire population of these impoverished people and yet we seem incapable of availing them the relief they so desperately need. This would be a totally justifiable cause to declare war instead of the economic, geopolitical and ethnocentric reasons we ***** up whenever the jingoistic urge strikes us. People starving? Fuck 'em I guess.... Too bad they don't have any oil....