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...Kill Hunger at the Source How can you spend three pages saying food aid doesn't alleviate the causes of famine [June 25-July 2] without once citing the most basic cause: overpopulation. Japan learned this more than 50 years ago and now it has been one of the most prosperous nations on earth. China and India are also curbing birth rates and their economies have vastly improved. You can search for those "longer-term solutions," but you never state the simplest answer. Fewer mouths to feed means more food to eat. Brian Bate, Cebu, The Philippines
...past, China has taken the position that it doesn't interfere in other countries' internal affairs. (To do so would invite interference in its own internal affairs, including its insistence that Taiwan is a renegade province of China.) And its foreign aid has been unconditional. (In contrast to the "Imperialists," China wants a relationship of equality with other developing countries.) But lately, China has displayed a new willingness to twist arms in Sudan, and its officials have been talking in different terms about the crisis there. Listen, for example, to Liu Guijin, China's Special Envoy on Darfur, speaking...
...return for these concessions, the peacekeeping mission is authorized to defend itself with force, to protect civilians and ensure safe passage of aid workers and aid. Though it is hoped that most of the troops will come from Africa, the logistics and technical support - which the ineffective African Union force lacked - will come from outside the continent...
...this week's announcement from the World Food Program that gunmen have attacked nine food convoys across Darfur in the last two weeks, as many as in the first five months of the year. Kenro Oshidari, the WFP's Sudan representative, refrained from identifying who might be stopping aid from reaching Darfuris, but said that as a result the WFP had been unable to reach 160,000 refugees in June, up from a previous high of 60,000 in March...
...millions of Iraqis, meanwhile, emergency aid cannot come soon enough. Khateeb says she gets a steady stream of phone calls from Iraqis seeking help of one kind or another as their lives slide into desperation amid Iraq's persisting violence and increasing fragmentation. "People are calling us every hour, every minute," Khateeb says. "They want to survive...