in africa, is hunger considered a natural disaster?
Sep 29, 2009
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drought leads to hunger right? or should that be considered a natural disaster too?
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4 comments
NOLA guy on September 29, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Yes, famine due to drought would be considered a natural disaster.
However, famine in Africa usually has more than one cause. It also all too often is the result of non-natural causes, such as the government in power withholding food from a area that is considered politically unreliable.
The famines in Ethiopia are a good example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_-_1985_famine_in_Ethiopia
http://abbaymedia.com/News/?p=2843
To Sunny San San: Yes, it’s was really horrible how those evil white people tried to inflict atrocities on Africa, such as schools, hospitals, roads, electricity, the rule of law, and democracy. How wonderful Africa has now had more than 50 years of freedom from those awful whites and has almost fully reversed the effects of their imperialistic tyrrany. Soon the last vestiges of colonialism will be erased and all of Africa can be a Paradise like Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.
Mary B on September 29, 2009 at 11:48 pm
damp and wet weather in rain forest.
many special animal or plants.
Sunny San San on September 29, 2009 at 11:48 pm
I think it is sort of. However, it is mainly caused by the greed, selfishness, and lack of concern of most of the rich countries in this world. Their wages were doing too low (usually paid from 10% to 20% of what those white peoples did in Africa for doing the exact work) to compare with the small groups of white domain society in most of the African countries. They were being badly treated as slaves in the US and harsh life as the diamond miners etc. If Africa were developed as a manufacturing/industrial based continent, African shouldn’t have ended up with such hardship place for the many Africans.
http://ca.search.yahoo.com/search?p=The%20colonization%20of%20African%20countries%20that%20caused%20racial%20seggregation
csluf on September 29, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Hunger is