This title, An Atrocity That Needs No Exaggeration,, tells you everything you need to know about the article. Exaggeration For Extra Sympathy?
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Sierra Leone just held its first elections since UN peacekeeping efforts ended two years ago. Millions Flock to Vote in Sierra Leone - New York Times
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So the President of Mugabe decides to go against all common sense and act as if the law of supply and demand only counts if you want it to. Caps on Prices Only Deepen Zimbabweans' Misery - New York Times. Surprisingly, his choice has led to...wait for it...more corruption.
"One month after Mr. Mugabe decreed just that, commanding merchants nationwide to counter 10,000-percent-a-year hyperinflation by slashing prices in half and more, Zimbabwe's economy is at a halt. Bread, sugar and cornmeal, staples of every Zimbabwean's diet, have vanished, seized by mobs who denuded stores like locusts in wheat fields. Meat is virtually nonexistent, even for members of the middle class who have money to buy it on the black market. Gasoline is nearly unobtainable. Hospital patients are dying for lack of basic medical supplies. Power blackouts and water cutoffs are endemic."
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Big American farm deal can mean the difference between eating and starving in Kenya. Kenyan Farmers' Fate Caught Up in U.S. Aid Rules That Benefit Agribusiness - New York Times
