Hunger, Inflation And Unrest Causing Protests and Riots In Third World Countries
Posted: Friday, February 18, 2011
by Joel Hendon
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According to Wikipedia, ‘Third World’ refers to the economically underdeveloped nations especially those of the Middle East, South Asia, Latin America, Africa and Oceania. These whose lives are precarious in normal times, become crucial in difficult times. These pitiable nations also seem to breed, or attract, corrupt scum for leaders. Africa, though the majority strive to have a normal, respectable and comfortable life even while surrounded by poverty, has developed the reputation of having some of the most unscrupulous and corrupt leaders imaginable.
Thirteen people died and hundreds were wounded last week in the African nation of Mozambique when police cracked down on a three-day protest over a 30 percent hike in the price of bread. The UN says the riots in Mozambique should be a wake-up call for governments that have ignored food security problems since the global food crisis of 2008, when countries around the world saw angry protests in the streets over the rising prices of basic food items. (DemocracyNow.org)
The World’s food prices have risen so dramatically, adding a new level of danger to the crisis of world hunger. In Africa, food riots have swept across the continent, with recent protests in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Senegal.
(Nigerian Troops leave for Darfur-Wikipedia photo)All of this world dissatisfaction should be alarming to everyone. Even to New Zealand which has been chosen as the most peaceful nation in the world. It is very distressing. The world is becoming angry, nations are deeply divided politically, including our own nation. People are starving, rioting for improvements, almost every nation is in a deep financial crisis.
Almost every day, you read of a number of deaths in one or more nation’s protests and rioting. And certainly we have an ample amount of that right here in our hemisphere. Upheavals in Mexico, Colombia and a few other Central and South American countries. This isn’t the way things once were.
I realize there are the arrogant with their self imagined wisdom who know the answers and the solutions to all of these woes. I am not one of those. I can only appeal to the God of our fathers
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Yes Joel, I would like to ignore thew news reports we see on television where riots are breaking out all over the world. But that would be escaping the problem there must be a solution for us here on planet earth.
I hope you're right David and I wish I knew what it was. I won't be around much longer, but it still frightens me for those I will be leaving behind.
Good article, daddy. This is probably the saddest subject facing our world today. That people, in this day and time, still have to fight (literally) so hard for food to feed themselves and their families weighs heavily on my mind and heart. This includes our own country, where there are still millions of people suffering from malnutrition, children dying of starvation daily... I struggle to comprehend it. And, with the rising cost of the basic food staples, it seems the problem can only get worse. Like you, I don't have the answers. I wish I did.
Yes, it is pitiful. maybe it will work out some way. But I don't look for times to ever be as good as they have been.
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