More than half of Somalis now face starvation

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/more-than-half-of-somalis-now-face-starvation-2348921.html

UN to announce that the famine in the Horn of Africa is spreading and the situation 'will become worse and worse'

By Emily Dugan

Sunday, 4 September 2011

The famine in Somalia has spread to new regions, the UN will announce tomorrow, with the food crisis yet to reach its peak. The new front is expected to be in the Bay region in south-central Somalia.

Some four million people – more than 50 per cent of the population – are now in crisis, and the famine is expected to spread further in the coming months. In total almost 13 million people are facing starvation in the Horn of Africa, aid agencies estimate.

American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show that the UN was lobbying for help to avert catastrophe in Somalia as long ago as 2008, but official reaction to the disaster was exceedingly sluggish until recently. Now, if the rains do not come in October, the future for the millions still trapped without food amid the civil war in southern Somalia looks even more uncertain.

[FarCenter]

1. La Nina will continue into 2012, that part of the world will become uninhabitable

La Nina is predicted to continue into 2012, therefore, the rains will not be plentiful in the Horn of Africa.

With global warming, La Nina conditions in the Pacific are expected to become more frequent and possibly permanent.

The Horn of Africa will not be able to sustain anything close to its present population on a continuing basis. The Somalis have to either emigrate or starve.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, NNN0LHI.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. If they only had oil, we could help out

How fucked up is this world of ours?

[minavasht]

6. I am not sure about the details

But at some point there was a humanitarian force there.
A bunch of freedom-loving locals decided that they did not need it and UN eventually pulled out in 1995.
They surely won the battle

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. K&R

[minavasht]

5. Well, at least they can brag how the infidels

were defeated and chased out of the country.

[Blue Owl]

7. Only a teabagger could be happy about this

n/t

[tblue37]

8. Unfortunately, the aid that is sent will be looted by the warlords'

militias to be either used by them or sold on the black market, and the people who need it won't get much if any of it.

This is the sort of deregualted, government-free paradise that Republicans want for us. I wish we could just ship them over there to live.