Please watch the video on the link above with Dallaire speaking. He is saying the troops are home from Afghan. and could be sent to help in Africa. I agree.

Why is Africa always the forgotten out-of-mind country? Nobody cares?

Quote from the link above:

Sen. Romeo Dallaire — who watched Rwanda descend into one of worst humanitarian crises of the 20th century while he was head of the UN peacekeeping force there in 1993 and 1994 — said the situation in CAR is being overshadowed at this time by the ceremonies and commemorations marking Nelson Mandela‘s passing, similar to how world leaders and media were focused on the celebration of Mandela’s inauguration nearly two decades ago.

“In ’94, I was in a country that was falling into implosion and genocide,” he told Global News. “We had the good news story of Nelson Mandela coming on. So, that sounded better and was less engaging of potential hard decisions, by politicians, by simply acknowledging the positive story.”

He said the world is once again turning a blind eye to an increasingly volatile situation.

People do care, but there might be some donour fatigue concerning Africa.

For the past 50 or so years, the developed world has poured massive aid into Africa, seemingly to no avail. The situation in most African countries has gone from bad to worse; Africa appears to be a bottomless pit that that just swallows up aid.

Perhaps our aid was not the right kind? How can we best help people who were thrown from the stone age into the jet age in one generation or two?

Education and training appear to be the key. Universal elementary education, followed by secondary education, trades training, and university education. But even basic elementary education is sadly lacking in many African countries, and this is where we, and they, should start.

Perhaps we should not leave it up to our senior governments or large bureaucratic aid organizations, but take it upon ourselves to help? Of the three levels of government, federal, provincial, and civic, the civic level is the one that ordinary citizens have the most say in, and control over, and this is the level that administers money most efficiently.

The city of Ingolstadt, Germany, for instance, has built an elementary school in Africa, and equipped and maintains it. But for the city of Ingolstadt, charity also starts at home, and they have city-subsidised high quality day care for every child over three, and are now working on lowering that to every child over one-and-a-half, up to which age there is government-paid ma/paternity leave, so that high quality education from babyhood on is guaranteed for every child. Ingolstadt also has the highest area of children's playground per child in the world. For all of this, UNICEF pronounced Ingolstadt "The most child-friendly city in the world."

The Audi plant, which is situated in Ingolstadt, is, of course, a big contributor to all that. Investing in the future of our planet appears to be the best way for a global corporation to advertise itself. Perhaps their example will be catching?

I've often thought about Africa and the many areas that are stricken with some of the worst genocides in history. We do tend to regard them as just a place to pour money into thinking that is the answer. We dig wells and give seeds. Our stance has changed to thinking we should teach people how to plant crops to feed themselves, and I agree with most of what Arminius has said. We do have a "fatigue" when it comes to endless giving and of course we shouldn't stop BUT I also think we are dealing with alot of young people (sometimes due to AIDS and the fighting). Young people (especially young boys) that haven't had a chance to be taught a morality or even allowed to live long enough to develop one. Countries that are encased in war are often led by young rebels that have been groomed into a culture of war. The women hold down the fort as best they can but are often the victims of this war mentality. The statistics on rape in some of these countries is appalling and the fear factor must be atrocious for them. It's a vicious cycle and I don't have the answers, just a lot of facts. Bless those who dare to venture in and attempt change, it must be gruelling.

Thanks Arminius and Waterfall for your responses.

True, but I was thinking more about the endless wars amongst  themselves i.e. the terrorists, Muslims vs Christians etc. like the Rwanda tragedy. As Dallaire says...nobody helped and it turned into a genocide.

Dallaire is always afraid the same thing can happen again. This is why I was saying its " like nobody cares". I wasn't referring to the ongoing starvation in particular. I don't have the link but Obama has sent in a few ( 100)  army soldiers ( along with France)  like the U.S. did in Mali...was it.?

Quote from my link above:

Human rights groups have warned for months that what is happening in CAR could devolve into a genocide, as Muslim rebels — who made up the Selaka alliance that helped overthrow the Christian-led government in March of this year — carried out targeted attacks on Christian communities.

More than 415,000 people, or 10 per cent of the population, have been internally displaced and 68,000 more have fled to neighbouring countries.

Months of murder, maiming and destruction of villages prompted human rights groups and the United Nations’ Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide, to warn the situation could worsen to the point of genocide.

I'm back.....

I found this info. which not everyone agrees with re Obama sending support. (See website  comments.)  I've often argued the same "no more armies/support  being sent "  myself because of  the poverty in the U.S and the  monster debt.  I do wish the U.S. would take better care of its own poor people alongside helping other countries. However, that's another topic and another old one we call "beating a dead horse".

In this case I'm glad the U.S. has a type of a  presence there at least. I did read ( unless it was old news)  that the U.S. has sent 100 soldiers. We always have to watch the dates of the news we read on the net.

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Much of our "giving" has been in the form of weapons. And France is not in CAR to help anybody but itself. This is a part of the old, European imperial powers trying to re-establish themselves on their old stamping grounds.

Much of the mess we see there, most of it, was caused by centuries of western interference, brutality, slavery, slaughter, abuse, exploitation..... We laid the groundword for terrorism - and showed how it's done. The intability we created has led to sectarian wars and genocide. Indeed, we have deliberately  created those hatreds and fears so we can rule by default.

In the same say, we created Mao Tse-tung, and the divisions in Afghanistan.And we've only begun. There's much worse coming.

We send aid? Yes - salaries and weapons for the hired thugs who are fighting as "rebels" for us in Syria. Iraq got our aid in the form thousands of tons of bombs that rained on it, and over a half million killed.

The problem is not Africa. The problem is us.