The next food crisis in Africa is already here
Friday, November 4, 2005 at 1:22PM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

"Drought Deepens Poverty, Starving More Africans," by Michael Wines, New York Times, 2 November 2005, p. A1.

Well, that didn't take long, did it?

1.7 million hungry across Mozambique, Lesotho, Swaziland and Malawi.


Guess which country sits in the middle of all those? Well, Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. Think that doesn't matter in terms of frightening off foreign investment and trade? Think again.


Mugabe's government seized all the farms from the whites there and the agricultural sector collapsed. Then he tightened his political grip, creating refugees galore. Guess where they go? One country over, as always.


Misery loves company.

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