Topic: Ethiopia: Millions to spend on US weapons while people starve
Frustrated Mess
rabble-rouser
Babbler # 8312
posted 12 August 2008 11:27 AM
quote: But things have changed. Now, people often talk about the looming threat of hunger in Ethiopia-the food security in their country is the worst it's been in 25 years. The global rise in food and fuel prices has pushed Ethiopia into a downward spiral of rising food costs and the extremely poor are finding it harder and harder to eat. According
According to the Ethiopian English language weekly The Reporter, the United Nations food agency recently announced that it needed $222 million to avert a major food crisis in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian government and aid agencies estimate that 4.6 million people in the country need around 510,000 tons of cereals to meet emergency food assistance needs until November 2008 and another 8 million people are chronically food insecure. So far, only 30 percent of the required food aid is available or has been pledged.
Ethiopia is of course the main US proxy in the war in Somalia.
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Boom Boom
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posted 30 August 2008 12:32 PM
Thread drift (sorry): the Christian Children's Fund is running a TV ad that claims 27,000 children will die tonight because of starvation or preventabe diseases. Amazing in this world of plenty and misguided expenditures (billion dollar Stealth Bombers for example).
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Fidel
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posted 30 August 2008 12:42 PM
At that rate, just under 10 million children will die by year end. It's an annual holocaust - a crowning glory for globalizing capitalism
You bet it is. One for which consumer capitalism never gets credit. This week, let's blame Africans themselves - same as last week.
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