Famine fears for seven million Ethiopian children

DesertRat

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Tue May-20-08 10:14 PM
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Famine fears for seven million Ethiopian children

Source: CNN

A year of drought and soaring food prices has threatened the lives of tens of thousands of Ethiopian children.

We have nothing to feed our children," said Egu's village elder. "We are losing our children day by day."

Ethiopia's Health Ministry, along with UNICEF, monitors the health of thousands of children here, but the number of areas they have been able to regularly visit has been cut in half this year.

The small rains that normally allow Ethiopian farmers to plant a second crop each year did not come this year, adding to an already critical food shortage.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/20/ethiopia.children/index.html?iref=topnews

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Wed May-21-08 09:55 AM
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1. China, Africa, and Oil

China's not unique in cutting deals with bad governments and providing them arms," Kang says.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/9557/

Attack on Chinese-run oil field a reminder of dangers of China's interest in Africa

"There is no way we would stay away from Africa due to the fear of risk," said a spokesman for Beijing's Sinopec, the state-owned parent company of Zhongyuan. "This is not a game for us. We will try to improve security in future, but there is no way we will withdraw from our projects there."

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Africa analyst Gus Selassie said Tuesday's attack could affect foreign investment in Ethiopia, a desperately poor country. Ethiopia does not produce oil, but China's Zhongyuan and Malaysia's state-owned oil giant Petronas have signed exploration deals.

"The oil reserves there are not even proven so many investors will be asking themselves is it worth the risk,"

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/25/africa/AF-GEN-Ethiopia-China-Oil-Attack.php

Come to think of it, OPEC could "feed the world" if they decided to jack the price of oil up to $155 bbl or so. People in the west would 'pay at the pump' for it.

Don't hold your breath on that developing nation to rethink their buisness mission statement.
China follows the Darwinian law of survival of the fittest for their african interests.

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