Despite Efforts, African Challenges Worsen

With the advent of renewed interest in African famine relief, one may be excused for believing that the food crisis that continues to grip that continent is on its way to improvement. But one would nevertheless be wrong.

A new study finds that starvation will continue to plague sub-Sahara Africa, if current trends prevail.

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Comment: What the world has done for Africa for the last thirty years clearly hasn't worked. Rather than continuing to maintain the current course, what is needed to alleviate the perpetual food crisis there is innovative and practical thinking at the highest levels of government combined with active, cooperative efforts toward implementation. There has been much talk about reconfiguring trade policies and the like, but so far, the results are few.

In the meantime, what is contributed by the West can only serve as short-term emergency relief. It's relief that is appreciated, to be sure, but that nevertheless will remain useless as a permanent solution to this seemingly intractable issue.