Trump's USAID: Enough With The Endless Begging For Food!

[MOON Ki]

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limited global resources will no longer allow for perennial appeals.

http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Govt-requires-more-efforts-to-tackle-malnutrition/1056-3872636-djwf37z/index.html

For their part, the Africans had the usual to say.   First,

thanks to contributions from donors, we are able to respond faster."

and then, for the zillionth time,

[IGAD meeting] But participants said there must now be longer-term programmes.

Kenya is "leading" the way:

But it has only allocated Sh7.3 billion for the remaining phases, meaning it may need assistance from donors of another Sh11.4 billion.

Meanwhile laptops-for-toddlers have something like Sh. 18 billion allocated, which is much more than the entire state department for water and irrigation, and Galana is proceeding nicely as a vehicle for the kula-nyama.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

She is being PC by using the term emergency instead of dependency.  Trump might wake up one morning and USAID will be gone in a twitter rant.  This will hurt some people, because others cannot suddenly stop eating to make up the shortfall.

[Globalcitizen12]

Did it rain? Because pictures i saw this morning on social media were really sad. A red cross worker giving water to a woman on the ground. it is wildest in NEP. Women, elderly and children are left to die. Only rain can save them

[Georgesoros]

How can one justify begging for food while politicians fly nearly 20 helicopters to funerals?
There are enough resources in Kenya to feed the starving. What is lacking is leadership.