Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Sunday, 25 December 2011

SPOOKS BOMB CHURCHES AT CHRISTMAS

Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan shakes hands with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Nigeria, 8 January 2010.

On 25 December 2011, there were bomb attacks on churches in Nigeria.

The group Boko Haram, said to be linked to the CIA and Mossad, has said that it carried out the attacks.

(Nigeria churches hit by blasts during Christmas prayers)

In 2010, Christmas Eve bombs, and attacks on churches, killed at least 86 people in Nigeria.

Boko Haram claimed it did the 2010 bombings. (Boko Haram? Reuters)

Boko Haram says it supports the CIA's al Qaeda.


In September 2011, we read that MOSSAD and the CIA were to be given the job of probing the Nigerian security agencies

The probe was to be run by Moshe Ram, a top Israeli.


Nigerian church at Christmas 2011

Nigeria is reported to be used as a major drug transit and money laundering centre for the proceeds of the CIA drug trade. (CIA Agents & Nigeria.)

The CIA takes a strong interest in NIGERIA

Former Nigerian leader Ibrahim B. Babangida is reported to be a Mossad or CIA agent (CIA Agents & Nigeria.)

Miss Nigeria

"IBB is a Mossad/CIA asset, as was Abiola and Umar Muttalab (father of the crouch bomber and former Chairman of Nigeria's premier bank, First Bank) amongst others like Orji Uzor Kalu.

"Mossad's chief operative in Nigeria is Alon Nelken, an Israeli and owner of Megaplaza shopping mall in Victoria Islands, Lagos.

"In Nigeria, one would find a clear infiltration of foreign bodies posed as foundations and organizatonal institutions all geared toward influencing government policies in the oil and gas sectors." (THE CIA IN NIGERIA)

Who would bomb churches?

Christmas in Jakarta - Website for this image

Over the Christmas period, in Indonesia, millions of Moslems will be protecting both Christians and churches.

H.M. Nuruzzaman, of the world's biggest Moslem organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama, said a total of 2.6 million Moslems have been prepared for the deployment.

Indonesia Muslims Protect Xmas

In previous years, churches have been protected by Moslem volunteers against attacks by mysterious forces, said to be linked to members of the Indonesian military, linked to the CIA and Mossad. (MOSSAD and THE CIA TURN UP THE HEAT.)

Indonesians

19 people were killed and scores injured in a series of attacks on churches on Christmas Eve in 2000.

In February 2001, the respected Indonesian newsweekly Tempo published a cover story suggesting links between the church bombings and the Indonesian military, the TNI.

The article pointed out that Edi Sugiarto, who was quickly arrested and confessed to assembling 15 of the bombs used in the town of Medan, has long run a car repair shop in the province of Aceh, where a separatist group named GAM operated.

Members of TNI and Indonesia’s special forces, Kopassus, regularly went to his shop for repairs and just to hang out.

As a result, GAM claimed he was a TNI lackey and burned down his shop and house in 1997.

Phone records also indicated that Sugiarto called Fauzi Hasbi seven times before the bombings.

Hasbi is a leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, but Tempo outed him as an Indonesian government agent.

In 2005, two years after Hasbi’s death, the Australian television program SBS Dateline provided additional evidence of Hasbi’s long-time links to the TNI.

Fasbi also called Jacob Tanwijaya, a businessman well connected with the TNI, 35 times.

That businessman in turn talked on the phone to Lt. Col. Iwan Prilianto, a Kopassus special forces intelligence officer, over 70 times. (Source: Kopassus)

Indonesians

In Indonesia, the special forces regiment, Kopassus, works closely with Mossad (MOSSAD IN INDONESIA) and the American military.

There is evidence linking Kopassus to attacks on Christian churches in Indonesia.

"The most vicious combined operation of Coker (Chrtistian gangsters) and Kopassus was the attack on the village of Soya...

"22 houses were destroyed by fire, as well as the historic church of Soya built during Portuguese times and 12 people were killed.

"The Soya bloodbath created new tensions between Muslim and Christian communities.

"It is now clear that the attack was not the work of Muslim warriors as was thought at the time but an attack by a Christian militia gang together with Kopassus units." (aangirfan: The 'terrorism' is often linked to Christian gangsters ...)

The CIA's Allen Pope during his trial in Jakarta, 28 December 1959.

The CIA secretly bombed Christians in Indonesia, in order to topple President Sukarno.

On 15 May 1958, a CIA plane bombed the Ambon marketplace, killing a large number of civilians on their way to church on Ascension Thursday.

Three days later, during another bombing run over Ambon, a CIA pilot, Allen Lawrence Pope, was shot down and captured. (Indonesia 1957-1958 KH)

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Anonymous said...

Some related links:

http://williambowles.info/2011/09/15/the-new-scramble-for-africa-by-conn-hallinan/

http://opooae.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/spooks-in-nigeria/

http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/afrcom-to-expand-its-role-on-continent/

And some Anglo disinformation:

http://www.iiss.org/publications/strategic-comments/past-issues/volume-17-2011/november/boko-haram-nigerias-growing-new-headache/

Said it before, but... They're just not too original, these Zionist and Angloamerican snakes.

All the same old tired methods used in the NATO Strategy of Tension.

False flag terrorism with the objective of inflaming sectarian tensions and weakening the nation overall.

Of course, it's possible the snakes deigned to involve the NIA (Nigerian Intelligence Agency) too: it would help to escalate war against the MEND.

And the Nigerian government bought Israeli drones to use against the MEND "terrorists" in the Niger Delta.

Alon Nelken mediated in the weapons sale.

Boko Haram sounds very much like a Nigerian Al Qaeda, a Mossad-CIA invention designed to discredit existing legitimate opposition such as MEND.

And probably the populations of the Christian South in Nigeria swallow this ruse hook, line and sinker.

The mindless mantra again: it's them dang Muslims what's to blame.In general, the fabricated enmity du jour is Christian against Muslim.

The Indonesian way to deal with this, massive Muslim presence to protect Christians and their churches, is the way to go...

Eventually the enmities fabricated by the Ziocons will be replaced by a genuine enmity: everyone against Zionist plutocrat.

And these snakes won't have a rock to hide under.

The bastards have been screwing Africa and the rest of the world for long enough...

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CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS IN INDONESIA
CIA PLOT TO MAKE INDONESIA LIKE PAKISTAN?
INDONESIA'S JEWS
CHINA AND INDONESIA BECOME CLOSER FRIENDS

Wednesday, 30 November 2011

SUB-SAHARAN SPRING?

Angolan Children
Angola by Harleys & Thunderstorms

Angola is the second biggest oil-producer in sub-Saharan Africa.

In Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos has held power since 1979.

"Protests, albeit so far small ones, are bubbling."

Democracy in sub-Saharan Africa: It’s progress, even if it’s patchy

Most people in Angola "live on less than $1 per day".

Luanda by Harleys & Thunderstorms

Equatorial Guinea is the fourth biggest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa.

President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea has been in power for 32 years.

Whose next to be toppled by the USA-NATO?

Sunday, 9 October 2011

EGYPT BEING BROKEN UP; SYRIA EXPLAINED

Cairo, October 2011.

On 10 October 2011, we learn that at least 24 people have been killed in Cairo.

At least three of the dead are said to be soldiers.

Christians, protesting about an attack on a church in Aswan in Upper Egypt, have clashed with military police.

Army vehicles have been set alight.

Agent provocateurs may be at work.

Reportedly, the CIA and its friends want the Christians in Egypt, 10% of the population, to form a separate state in Upper Egypt, a state that would help control the Nile.

Cairo, October 2011

"This is a dark day in the military's history. This is betrayal, a conspiracy, murder," Magdy el-Serafy wrote on Twitter. (Egypt cabinet to meet over violence that kills 24‎)

"What happened in front of the state TV building is exactly what happened on Jan. 25," wrote Muslim activist Asmaa Mahfouz.

"What happened today is unprecedented in Egypt. 17 corpses crushed by military tanks," Hossam Bahgat, human rights activist tweeted from hospital. "I saw bodies missing hands and legs, heads twisted away or plastered to the ground."

Protesters also took to the streets in Alexandria.

America's Conquest of Africa: The Roles of France and Israel

Tunisia is in a mess as police use teargas on Islamist protesters

SYRIA EXPLAINED

Saturday, 1 October 2011

MAATHAI VERSUS THE IMF AND WORLD BANK


Professor Wangari Maathai (Nobel laureate and environment‎alist) was born in the central highlands of Kenya in 1940.

Back in the 1940s, her small village had clean water, rich soils, rich forests and plenty of food.

"It was heaven. We wanted for nothing," she said.

"Now the forests have come down, the land has been turned to commercial farming, the tea plantations keep everyone poor, and the economic system does not allow people to appreciate the beauty of where they live."


Maathai was educated by Catholic nuns. (environment‎)

Maathai said: "After my education by the nuns, I emerged as a person who believed that society is inherently good and that people generally act for the best."

Maathai won a scholarship to study in the US, as part of the 'Kennedy airlift' in which 300 Kenyans - including Barack Obama’s father - were chosen to study at American universities in 1960.

After further study in Germany, she returned to a newly independent Kenya in 1966.

Her early work as a vet took her to some of Kenya's poorest areas.

She saw first-hand the damage that was being done to the environment.

In 1977, she set up the Green Belt movement.

She became critical of politicians in Kenya, the World Bank, the IMF, Britain and other former colonial powers.

Before the 1990s, the Mau forest (above) was a protected area. "But then senior officials in President Daniel arap Moi's government grabbed large plots of the highly fertile land for themselves." Website for this image

What began as a few women planting trees became a network of 600 community groups.

They looked after 6,000 tree nurseries, which were often supervised by disabled and mentally ill people in the villages.

By 2004, more than 30 million trees had been planted, and the movement had branches in 30 countries.

In Kenya, the Green Belt movement has become an agricultural advice service, a community regeneration project and a job-creation plan.

In the early 1990s, Maathai set up Mazingira, the Kenyan Green Party.

Maathai became a junior environment minister between January 2003 and November 2005.

She died in September 2011. (Nobel laureate and environment‎alist)

Sunday, 11 September 2011

MOSSAD AND THE CIA IN NIGERIA

Goodluck Jonathan shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Nigeria, 8 January 2010.

Both China and the USA-NATO take an interest in Nigeria's oil wealth.

On 5 September 2011, we read about Mossad and the CIA in Nigeria.

More Bombs have been going off in cities in Nigeria.

(AQIM Link To Suicide Bombing Of UN Building In Nigeria‎ /Bombs detonated in strife-torn city)

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan may now have agreed to Mossad and the CIA carrying out a probe Nigeria's spooks. (MOSSAD and CIA to probe Nigerian security agencies)

Reportedly the Mossad-CIA probe will be led by Moshe Ram, the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria.

Bomb attacks in Nigeria are usually blamed on the 'Islamist' group called Boko Haram, which is believed to have links to al Qaeda, which is believed to be run by the CIA and its friends.

aangirfan: THE CIA IN NIGERIA

Tuesday, 23 August 2011

OBAMA ON LIBYA

Here is the speech we have written for President Obama when he explains why troops have to go into Libya:



My fellow Americans, Libya is in chaos and there are clear indications that the 'rebels' are not in a position to restore order.



We must copy the Italians.



In October 1911, our Italian allies brought order to Libya.



In just one incident, the Al-Shutt massacre, our Italian friends, with great efficiency, wiped out over a thousand troublesome women and children. (Tripoli Post)



We may need to build concentration camps in Libya.



I will remind you that in 1930, the Italians had to move the population of Gebel, 100,000 people, to concentration camps.



Let us be in no doubt that the Libyans are troublesome people.



Italy had to kill 12,000 Libyans every year in order to keep order.



I will remind you that back in 1885, it was decided, at a conference in Berlin, that Belgian troops were to be sent into the Congo. (massacres in Africa)



Although, sadly, half the population of the Congo died as a result of this intervention, there was a huge advantage for Belgium.



I will be honest. We need to do to Libya what the Belgians did to the Congo.





When it comes to looking after our interests we should not be squeamish.



I will remind you that on 2 September 1889, our British friends killed 11,000 Sudanese in one day - all in a good cause. (massacres in Africa)



In 1904, our German allies brought peace to Namibia by killing 80% 0f the population.



In 1920 and 1921, the British brought order to Iraq by killing 10,000 Iraqis.



Let us not forget our allies in France.



In 1945, French troops had to kill 50,000 Algerians in order to keep order.



(More here: NATO powers have long history of massacres in Africa)



Sunday, 22 May 2011

INVESTMENT IN AFRICA

Website for this image

"For the past few years big names including Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase of the US, have been popping up in places such as newly oil-rich Ghana.

"In London, Helios Investment Partners, an investment firm founded by young Nigerians, is poised to close subscriptions to a $900m fund, so far the largest private equity fundraising exercise to target Africa.

"This comes as the much bigger Carlyle Group of the US is backing the continent for the first time, setting up in South Africa and Nigeria – the two biggest economies south of the Sahara."

Ripe for reappraisal - Financial Times

"Growth has been spurred by market liberalisation and improved public management of finances as well as a boom in the commodities that Africa has in abundance.

"Perhaps the biggest factor has been the engagement of emerging powers including India and Brazil but led by China."

Ripe for reappraisal - Financial Times

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Thursday, 10 March 2011

LIBYAN ATROCITIES

Belgian UN troops admit to roasting a Somali boy

The CIA's coup in Libya is all about stealing oil.

And helping the arms trade and Wall Street.

And removing Chinese influence.

And giving the USA control of North Africa.


On 9 March 2011,at Global Research, Professor Michel Chossudovsky has an article entitled "Operation Libya" and the Battle for Oil: Redrawing the Map of Africa

Among the points made:

1. Libya has the largest oil reserves in Africa.

The idea behind the US-NATO coup is to control that oil.

And take over Libya's National Oil Corporation.

2. And help the weapons producers.

3. And remove Chinese influence.

China plays a central role in the Libyan oil industry.

The UK's Clegg and Cameron seem to support the CIA coups.

4. And help Wall Street.

Billions of dollars of Libyan financial assets, deposited in Western banks, are to be conficated.

5. And give the USA control of North Africa.

This means weakening French links to Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria; and other parts of Africa such as Niger and Chad.

And weakening Italian links to Libya.

Victims of the Belgians

How do Europeans behave in Africa?

A Belgian officer described a raid to punish a Congolese village that had protested against Belgian actions.

The white officer in command: "ordered us to cut off the heads of the men and hang them on the village palisades, also their sexual members, and to hang the women and the children on the palisade in the form of a cross." (Mass crimes against humanity in the Congo Free State)

It's not Libya that has murdered up to two million Iraqis.

Gaddafi wants an international fact-finding team to visit Libya to investigate alleged atrocities committed during the present troubles. (Tripoli calls for atrocities inquiry)

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Monday, 13 July 2009

South Africa and Nationalisation of Mines.

The Johannesburg skyline. Taken by de:Benutzer:Zakysant.

Think about nationalised companies.

90% of the world's oil is managed by national oil companies.

Of the 20 biggest oil firms, in terms of reserves of oil and gas, 16 are run by governments.

State-run Saudi Aramco has more than ten times the reserves that Exxon does.

Some politicians in South Africa would like the country's mines to be taken over by the government.

Can South Africa successfully nationalise its mines?

Can Egypt successfully manage the Suez Canal?

Britain's Anthony Eden thought not.

But he was wrong.

The Guardian, 13 July 2009, asks: Will South Africa reclaim its mines?

South Africa's mines provide half of its exports.

South Africa has gold, diamonds, platinum, copper, coal, rhodium and more.

The investment by the mining companies in South Africa is between £100-150bn.

The mining companies would claim to have expertise in engineering, management and marketing.

Some people might think that the South African government lacks the money to buy the mines and lacks the skills to run them efficiently.

The Unions and Julius Malema, the leader of the ANC Youth League, and Castro Ngobese of the Young Communists all want nationalisation.

Susan Shabangu, the minister for minerals, opposes nationalisation.

President Jacob Zuma has said he does not intend to nationalise the mines.

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Sunday, 21 June 2009

RUSSIA IN NIGERIA


(Click here for the interactive version of this map. AFRICOM gets a budget boost)

Nigeria and Russia are doing deals in nuclear energy and in oil and gas.

And there may be military cooperation.

(Russia-Nigeria Nuclear Deal To Be Signed During Medvedev Trip)

In June 2009, Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev becomes the first Kremlin leader to visit Nigeria.

A joint venture between Gazprom and Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. will be signed.

The nuclear agreement "is for cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy especially for the purpose of electricity."

Russia and Nigeria signed an agreement on March 2009 to cooperate in building nuclear reactors and jointly explore for uranium.

"Other potential areas of cooperation will also be discussed, including military and technical cooperation," said a diplomat, who added that there was already "huge" and growing cooperation between the two countries.

China is now Africa's second largest aid donor and trading partner, behind the United States.

"But Russia, the second most-active emerging-market power, is gaining." (A Battle Over Africa's Riches. )

During the Soviet era, several African countries were considered "socialism oriented" - Algeria, Libya, Zimbabwe, Guinea Bissau, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Benin, Congo (Brazzaville), Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania, Mali, Zambia and Cape Verde. Besides, Sudan, Ghana, Somalia and Guinea were also considered socialist earlier. (RUSSIA: Chasing China in Africa)

Sunday, 31 May 2009

The President, the Evangelical Pastor and Sex with Teenage Boys.



Pastor Robert is said to have persuaded the president of Uganda to become a born again Christian.

In May 2009, it was reported that Pastor Robert Kayanja had forced two teenage boys to have anal sex with him.

Ugandan president caught up in evangelist sex scandal

The boys complained to the police.

The police detained the two boys and then issued a statement saying the boys had withdrawn their allegations.

The media is alleging presidential interference in the case.

A spokesman for Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni denied the president had become involved.


President Museveni and his dear friend former president Bush.

Allegedly, Yoweri Museveni is responsible for the death of 5.5 million africans- from Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan and Congo DRC.

"His presidency has been marred ... by involvement in the Second Congo War (the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo) and other conflicts in the Great Lakes region.

"Rebellion in the north of Uganda by the Lord's Resistance Army continues to perpetuate one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

"Recent developments, including the abolition of presidential term limits before the 2006 elections and the harassment of democratic opposition, have attracted concern from domestic commentators and the international community.

"One-third of Ugandans remain in poverty under the current government."




Stephen O. Murray has written about sex in Sub-Saharan Africa.

(social sciences >Africa: Sub-Saharan, Pre-Independence ).

Murray explains that Africa is, like the rest of the World, bisexual.

Murray points out that most of what we know about traditional African societies was written in the last decade of the nineteenth century or later.

There are reports of homosexuality across every region of the continent.

The colonial era reports are reviewed in Murray and Roscoe's 'Boy-Wives and Female Husbands'.

A few examples:

In the central African Zande culture, before European conquest, it was regarded "as very sensible for a man to sleep with boys when women are not available or are taboo."

English anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard was told that some Azande men had sex with boys "just because they like them."

The adult males paid the families of boy wives, just as they paid for female brides. The two slept together at night, "the husband satisfying his desires between the boy's thighs. When the boy grew up he joined the company and took a boy-wife in his turn. It was the duty of the husband to give his boy-wife a spear and a shield when he became a warrior. He then took a new boy-wife."

One commander, Ganga, told Evans-Pritchard that there were some men who, although they had female wives, still married boys. "When a war broke out, they took their boys with them...

If another man had relations with his boy, the husband could sue the interloper in court for adultery."

The South African Thonga provide another particularly well-documented instance of a boy-wife role.

A number of southern and western African societies also had female husbands, though whether these husbands had sexual relations with their wives is unclear in what has been written.

Gender-crossing homosexuality has been discussed as common in the (Nigerian) Hausa bori cult (and in Afro-Brazilian offshoots of west African spirit-possession religion).

Among the Maale of southern Ethiopia, some males crossed over to feminine roles. Called ashtime, these (biological) males dressed as women, performed female tasks, cared for their own houses, and apparently had sexual relations with men, according to Donald Donham.

One gave Donham a clear statement of the "third gender" conception: "The Divinity created me wobo, crooked. If I had been a man, I could have taken a wife and begotten children. If I had been a woman, I could have married and borne children. But I am wobo; I can do neither."

Among Swahili-speakers on the Kenya coast, particularly in the port of Mombasa, mashoga are transgendered prostitutes who have all the liberties of men and are also welcome in many contexts in which men are prohibited.

The paid partner usually takes the receptive role during intercourse, but it is likely that his inferiority derives from the fact that he is paid to provide what is asked for, rather than from his undertaking a particular sexual role. The one who pays is called the basha (derived from "pasha," a high-ranking official and the local term for the king in packs of playing cards).

Among the Fon, the predominant people in Dahomey (now Benin), Melville Herskovits in the 1930s reported that, after the age at which boys and girls may play together, "the sex drive finds satisfaction in close friendship between boys in the same group . . . . A boy may take the other 'as a woman,' this being called gaglgo, homosexuality. Sometimes an affair of this sort persists during the entire life of the pair".

Most of the reports of homosexual relations not involving differences in age or gender status involved young, unmarried men's sexual relationships with each other.

Kurt Falk wrote about an especially intimate bond of association, soregus, among the southeastern African Naman that included sex both between men and between women (with mutual masturbation the most common form of sex, but also males taking turns at anal penetrations and females using dildoes on each other).

An "exceptionally reliable" Nykakyusa (a people living around what is now the Tanzania/Zimbabwe border) reported to Monica Wilson in the early 1930s that male friends, who live in villages of age-mates when not out herding cattle, generally sleep together.

The Nykakyusa accepted that male friends who danced together would have sexual relations.

"Even if people see them in flagrante delicto, they say it is adolescence (lukulilo), all children are like that: they say that sleeping together and dancing is also adolescence," according to Wilson's elder. He reported that interfemoral intercourse is "what boys mostly do" and also reported anal and oral sex, ("some, during intercourse, work[ing] in the mouth of their friend, and hav[ing] an orgasm").

An Ovimbundu (in Angola) informant, told an ethnographer, "There are men who want men, and women who want women. . . . A woman has been known to make an artificial penis for use with another woman."

Among the Tswana (in addition to homosexuality among the men laboring in the mines), it was reported that back home "lesbian practices are apparently fairly common among the older girls and young women, without being regarded in any way reprehensible." Use of artificial penises was also reported among the Ila and Naman tribes of South Africa.

There are reports of age-differentiated roles in Lesotho. Relationships are initiated voluntarily by one girl who takes a liking to another and simply asks her to be her mummy or her baby, depending on their relative age, according to Judith Gay.

"The most frequently given reason for initiating a particular relationship was that one girl felt attracted to the other by her looks, her clothes, or her actions. . . . Sexual intimacy is an important part of these relationships." Over time, a Sotho may undertake both roles (with different partners) or play the same role with different partners.

Murray concludes:

With reports from hundreds of sub-Saharan African locales of male-male sexual relations and from about fifty of female-female sexual relations, it is clear that same-sex sexual relations existed in traditional African societies, though varying in forms and in the degree of public acceptance.

Much of this same-sex activity was situational or premarital, though there were long-term relationships, too.

The special Christian opposition toward homosexuality was carried to Africa by Europeans and stimulated denials that "the sin not named among Christians" existed among "unspoiled" Africans.

Monday, 18 May 2009

Food Price Crisis

Photo by Walter Siegmund

On 15 May 2009, the BBC World Service index of retail food prices showed that basic food prices worldwide have gone up 8% in the last 10 months. (Food prices vary but crisis remains)

The index is based on eight cities, including Washington, Nairobi and Buenos Aires.

In Nairobi, in Kenya, where many people earn only one US dollar a day, there was a rise of almost 50% in the price of food in the last 10 months.

The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation index shows food prices nearly 50% higher than in 2003. The price of cereals is up 80% since 2003.

ActionAid International predicts that about 17 million people in Kenya are now in danger of starvation.




"Agricultural yields in Africa have... fallen in some cases by up to 50 per cent as a result of invasive pests, land degradation, erosion, drought and climate change, according to the report, released .... by the UN Environment Programme...

"Reversing environmental degradation and 'investing in ... forests, soils and water bodies is one part of the ... solution...The other key is managing them and the food chain in far more efficient ways.'

"Over half of food produced worldwide is lost, wasted or discarded as a result of inefficiency..."

Reform Vital To Avert Looming African Food Crisis




www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/32_7728.htm