Can Africa Conquer Famine?

Both these statements are true, and yet there is a terrible irony in them. The Dinka woman, driven from her home by the savage raids of Sudanese Arab militiamen, was, that very same month, entitled to vote in the first free multi-party elections in her country in eighteen years. The winner of the elections, the party headed by Prime Minister Sadiq el Mandi, then proceeded to give further arms to the Arab militias. Two years later, the cumulative effect of their raids on the Dinka population w...