Five Million Face Death as Famine Grips Malawi

Five million face death as famine grips Malawi

Bill Corcoran in Nsange district, southern Malawi
Sunday October 2, 2005
The Observer


Famine is once again stalking Africa's poorest nations as new figures released on Friday show that the food crisis in Malawi is much worse than anticipated.

Aid agencies now say that at least five million people face starvation this winter.

The new figures are an increase of nearly a million on what agencies had previously expected in Malawi, a country in the grip of a severe drought and hamstrung by HIV/Aids. The food crisis here is replicated in five other southern African countries - more than 12 million people face chronic shortages between now and the spring harvest.

In Malawi, the ministry of health released data indicating that hunger across the country was rocketing.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1583021,00.html

why are we throwing money away in Iraq, on the pretense of freeing Iraqis from a cruel. dictator, while allowing millions to starve? Things like this make me sick. I only hope that in an afterlife, Bush and his whole gang of thugs are forced to pay the price for the misery they have inflicted on the world.

Can any of us here imagine starving to death? Can we imagine a mother, watching her children grow weaker and weaker, as time passes, and she cannot begin to hope that she can feed them? Such a cruel thing, permitted by a world that has gotten infinitely more indifferent and cruel to the poor of the world.

This is why I feel like throwing bricks at my t.v., to hear about this starvation, then see Bushco strutting around proclaiming what a godly man he is, and taking credit for turning Iraq into a democracy. Of course, he will fail, as he has in everything else he's ever done, and of course, Poppie will bail him out yet once again.

The War in Iraq Costs the United States


$198,164,837,124


Instead, we could have fully funded global anti-hunger efforts for
8
years.

http://costofwar.com/index-world-hunger.html

...would take care of impoverished minorities? They did everything possible to try to kill off the poor in New Orleas with their response to Katrina... so of course their response to Africa is to let them starve.

This is what hides behind our primary concern with this administration. Not that America is the only country that can help the starving people of the world. But we are all so frustrated on top of not being able to wrestle this evil group of greedy contemptuous thugs.
Bush is guilty of criminal negligence just on the AIDS front. He did not spend the money we provided.
The suffering at the hands of this administration is something that could have been avoided.

LATE.......


If Bush canardly manage a Nation, never mind a State, what makes us certain he can cpmprehend the State of the Planet??