ApocaDocs: Famine Looms as Wars Rend Horn of Africa

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Posted Sat May 17 2008: from New York Times:


	Famine Looms as Wars Rend Horn of Africa http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1211037101 "...Somalia -- and much of the volatile Horn of Africa, for that matter -- was about the last place on earth that needed a food crisis. Even before commodity prices started shooting up around the globe, civil war, displacement and imperiled aid operations had pushed many people here to the brink of famine. But now with food costs spiraling out of reach and the livestock that people live off of dropping dead in the sand, villagers across this sun-blasted landscape say hundreds of people are dying of hunger and thirst. This is what happens, economists say, when the global food crisis meets local chaos. "We're really in the perfect storm," said Jeffrey D. Sachs, a Columbia economist and top United Nations adviser, who recently visited neighboring Kenya."

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At the end of the day, bottom line, this perfect storm reaps what it sows.