From Voice OfAmerica:
The U.N. Children's Fund says the lives of a growing number of children in the Horn of Africa are threatened by chronic food insecurity, conflict and political instability.
The U.N. Children's Fund says an all too familiar tragedy is unfolding in the Horn of Africa. It warns an already bad situation for children will only get worse unless the world acts with much greater urgency to provide food and other assistance.
It says countries in the region are reeling from a combination of erratic weather patterns, the global economic crisis and intensifying conflict and insecurity. It says piracy and the hijacking of ships off the Somali coast also is adding to the emergency.
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My Comment:After 25 years of doing the same thing, the U.N. Children's Fund is telling us to do more of the same. From my point of view ..... hunger, poverty, and wars can all be laid at the foot of African tribalism, corruption, sectarian wars, and a culture of political and economic corruption. You can blame the weather and the West .... but it is not going to solve what is essentially an African political/cultural/and social problem.