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Starving people in Africa

In Lesotho Swaziland, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe there was around 14 million people in a risk of starving. Just in Zambia there were 2.5 million people starving in 2002. One of the biggest reasons is that the government doesn't want their people to eat the gene modified corn that USA is offering because they doesn't know how healthy it is, but many countries mean that it must be better then nothing. Other reasons are bad places to store food, no research to get better farming, political disturbance, drought, and effects from HIV/AIDS-epidemics.

In Zimbabwe it has also been very dry so when it is time for harvest there is not enough food. But the government has also made a new reform about how the land should be split up, and there the bigger white farmers are driven away to “get place for the smaller African farmers” but often the land comes in the hands of a friend of someone in the government and then the people get even less food. The government refuses to give whole gene modified corn, only grounded corn. If the farmers don’t get the corn whole corn they wont have anything to plant and there will be an even harder crisis. The USA claims in a statement that they might if necessary by force make the needing people get the food the USA sends, but Zimbabwe says that if the USA will go in with military force they will defend them selves with all they have, this was 2 years ago.

But what is the UN doing to help the needing countries in Africa? They have started a special program called WFP (World Food Program) they collect money and food from richer countries so they can give to countries with big needs, like Zimbabwe and Zambia, but the need is getting bigger for every day and the WFP have difficult to fill that need. The countries that can give must give more and the country that is receiving must have an effective way to get the help to the people. In 2002 the WFP started an campaign called “African Hunger Alert.”
The USA is sending gene modified corn to Zimbabwe and Zambia

They wanted the world to show how big the problem is beginning to get in Africa and wanted the world to give more money and help. They wanted every single organization that could help to step forward and take their responsibility. 2 years have passed and it is still a very big problem. The work is a complicated process and it is taking a long time to see the results. The AIDS effect is not doing the work easier. If the AIDS infected gets little food the process will go faster and they will get sick quicker, and in a starving situation they often sell sex to get some money and then they bring the disease to others and then AIDS is spreading. And the government don't really care about their people.