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Originally posted by AnIntellectualRedneck
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My question is this: Why isn't the media reporting this more widely? Is there some conspiracy to not connect the dots and cover up information? To find the bits of information that I did, I had to do literally hours of searching. What's going on here?edit on 23-8-2011 by AnIntellectualRedneck because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by AnIntellectualRedneck
My question is this: Why isn't the media reporting this more widely?
Originally posted by SpongeBeard
Because public panic is often worse than the actual disaster.
"We are seeing all the points able to distribute food completely overwhelmed," she said, adding that a camp in Dadaab in Kenya that was built for 90,000 people now housed 400,000.
"We've heard of women making the horrible choice of leaving behind their weaker children to save the stronger ones or having children die in their arms."
The WFP has said it cannot reach more than 2 million Somalis facing starvation in areas controlled by Islamist militants, who imposed a food aid ban in 2010 and have regularly threatened relief groups.
Originally posted by earthdude
Here in America, we store food. In Africa they cannot get it together to store food.