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If the poor of Africa are hungry, send them arms

Posted by seumasach on June 19, 2008

 

Mark Steel(Independent)

Wednesday, 18 June 2008

It’s so difficult, apparently, to work out how to solve the food shortages in Africa. Because the price of food has just gone up, the way prices do sometimes, caught by a freak gust of wind or flare from the sun or something and whoosh, up they go, whether it’s oil or an Olympic Games or rice and it’s just bad luck.

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