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Published Date: 11 October 2008
The number of Ethiopians needing food assistance is 6.4 million, compared with 4.6 million in June, Oxfam says.
Drought and high food prices have contributed to the worsening crisis in the area and there is a £150 million aid funding shortfall Oxfam said yesterday.


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  • Last Updated: 10 October 2008 10:08 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Ethiopia
 
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Media 1,

cape town 11/10/2008 10:03:11
How do we fix this? For years and years the world has been sending money and food and clothing and aid workers, but still no progress.

I live in Africa and I have visited a few places on this continent, and in most cases the story is the same. And I dont just mean the poverty and the lack of progress, I mean the incompetence.

We all know how bad most African leaders are, we see it every night on the news. But there are things you dont hear about in other parts of the world, and its these things that make people like me view Africa through different eyes.

A few nights ago a young man was shot in the head on the N1 in Johannesburg. He was travelling to Durban with his wife and they hit rocks on the motorway, which damaged their car. They had to pull over, it was then that the thugs attacked and killed him.

A few hours before that another man hit the rocks but he got away. Whilst he was changing his tyre the police drove past, navigated the rocks and drove past him. When that same man heard the news the next morning he called the radio stations and reported the incident.

We now have a pointless and brutal murder and an enquiry because two policemen just couldnt be bothered to do their duties. Most African leaders dont do their duties either.

Then what about the former health minister in SA? Mbeki kept her office and stood by her even though she preached that aids and HIV could be cured with garlic and beetroot. Both of them thus failing to do their duties.

What about the current leader of the ANC and probable President of SA? - He had sex with a known aids sufferer and then when she accused him of rape the trial began. During the trial when asked if he wasnt afraid of catching aids he said no because he took a hot shower after the sex to avoid contracting the disease. This same person has massive support in the ANC.

You cannot understand this continent unless you live in it. But once you live here, you slowly begin to appreciate why Africa looks
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Countryman,

11/10/2008 10:27:20
Media 1
In your lengthy discourse on Africa and its endless problems you failed to mention the root cause of that continent's tragedy. Overpopulation.
Ethiopia in 1984 received vast financial help from Britain and the US. The population expanded and ten years later famine reappeared.
Africa is a bottomless pit for Western money and soon we will have no more to give.
Nature will then provide the answer.
Read Malthus and Darwin.
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Media 1,

cape town 11/10/2008 10:35:22
#2 Countryman

That falls under incompetence - leaders and their governments should be using the vast amounts of money they have at their disposal to educate peole as opposed to hosting banquets in their palaces for visiting AFRICAN leaders and their entourages.

Sneding money has never been the solution - sending nothing and cutting them off completely would be the best gift we could offer them. Because then and only then will they lift themselves out of the pit they are in. It will take a while but it will assist them in the end - cruel, kind you know the score.
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