Wednesday, September 21, 2011

What You Need to Know About the Horn of Africa Famine

This Mother Jones backgrounder is excellent - What You Need to Know About the Horn of Africa Famine.
"Eastern Africa's worst drought in 60 years has combined with political violence in Somalia to produce what the United Nations is calling the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world. ..."
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The author is soliciting further Qs from readers - mine were:
  • Must the U.N. be invited in [and by whom?], in order for its peacekeeping forces to [come in and] establish&maintain order?
  • Do unalleviated famine & obstruction of relief efforts constitute sufficient legal reason for intervening in a country's politics?
  • If military options can be put on the table, what are they?

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