We must give cash, not food, to the starving in Niger
Rains have failed. Crop production has been wiped out. Families cannot feed themselves. Soon familiar images of skeletal babies will flicker on TV screens. The British public will be asked to respond with their usual generosity and that, together with government aid, will save thousands of lives — although others will be lost. Then the world will move on until somewhere, probably in Africa, it will happen again.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
A hunger crisis is brewing in Niger, one of Africa’s poorest countries. Millions will be left without enough food this summer. The early-warning systems have sounded and the British Government has sent £25 million to the region.… Seguir leyendo »