another impending famine in Africa ?

[anneasquith]

via bbc news < another impending famine in Africa, are the british people less generous, or more sceptical when donating to these dreadful disasters ?

[Mick-Talbot]

The famine is down to the ungenerous Brits?

[steg]

people may be getting fed up giving money to African countries because most of the money that is sent in aid to feed the hugely increasing populations, seem to go to fund war or/and to the rich rulers of these countries instead.

[anneasquith]

i agree steg........ and god forgive these " rulers " for depriving their countrymen of food/water.

[bazwillrun]

If you keep on breeding when there arent enough resources to feed the mouths it produces then I would guess that birth control would be a better way of spending money in these countries.

We might as well throw money down the drain for all the good it does in these places.

Drought has always happened in these places and always will, only difference now is that because there are people there is famine.

As long as we keep throwing money at them they wont do anything to help themselves in any way or form.

[carmalee]

Until the Super Powers have total control of the African continent and her resourses, there will be famine, genocide and civil war -a sad fact of life but a true one

[sandyRoe]

Global Warming could soon make The Horn of Africa uninhabitable. Where will the millions of people who live there go?

[carmalee]

cowtipper,johhny boy and steg - if you had been unfortunate enough to witness the human tragedy in Africa - you wouldn't joke - grow up

[Barmaid]

I do hope that those of you who consider it appropriate to make cheap jokes still consider it funny if you are ever in the position of starvation.

[anneasquith]

carmalee, dont fret, starving babies are an easy target :(

[carmalee]

anneasquisth - I don't stress - I've had experience

[anneasquith]

i know , carmalee.

[carmalee]

Eddie - compassion for those who have no control over their destiny - get a life

[Cowtipper]

My grandmother used to tell me it does as much good to laugh as to cry. The shark tank joke is a rather benign joke about a very harsh subject.

[carmalee]

agreed cowtipper but it achieves what?

[jackthehat]

Ah......and so the justification process begins........better you had held on to your home-spun Gump-isms and treated this subject with due respect....

[carmalee]

sorry JTH - not sure what you mean