"As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home."
-Jack Kornfield

10 December 2008

Basketcase


From the breadbasket of the continent, to the basketcase of the world...the slow and

steady decline of a nation under a murderous, negligent dictator, in stark image...
what can be done? what options remain on the table, with an inefficient regional development body refusing to act, and an African Union filled with members so unsure of their own democratic credentials, that acting would be glaringly hypocritical.
what can be done to save the 4 million people now on the cusp of starvation in the heart of Africa?

BBC's comprehensive reporting of the decline:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7771184.stm