20 January 2009
An Army (of sorts) Bombards Liberia
Hundreds of thousands of army worms have hounded towns and villages, eating enormous quantities of thier crops and leaving its villagers starving.
A team of experts, led by an entemologist, reported the situation as "alarming and (only) worsening." The team also reported that the insects were consuming all and every living vegetation along its' way.
"When the catepillars, (which are known as the biggest gluttons in the animal kingdom), near maturity they can lay waste to an entire crop in a matter of days," states Agriculture Minister Christopher Toe. And with consumtion comes excretion; there are actually so many worms that they are polluting the villages' running water with their feces.
Government farming, health and environmental protection agency specialists have been sent to the affected areas to assist with the problem by safely spraying insecticides on the clean and safe crops. Source.
Tags: Army Worms, Liberia, Starvation
Kenya's National Disaster Calls For International Help
"My government has with effect from today, declared the famine situation in the country a national disaster," stated the Kenyan president himself, Mwai Kibaki.
Roughly 10 million people are without food in Kenya, Africa today due to a severe drought that has gripped the country.
"I am therefore appealing to all our friends and development partners to assist us in meeting the shortfall of (401 million dollars) that will be needed to ensure the needs of 10 million Kenyans are met until the end of August this year," Kibaki states.
While a majority of the people are starving due to the loss of food, high inflation and the global surge in food prices are also factors to the situation. There has been no mention if the president of Kenya has reached out to President Obama for help. As you may recall, President Obamas' father is a native to the country. Source.
Tags: Drought, Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, Starvation