Increase aid, garner more blame
Of course. These children (it's always about the children) won't die as a result of Africa's political corruption, its history of socialist economics, or its backwards culture. They will instead die "as a result" of the West's failure to pump more money into these places.Broken promises leave three million children to die in Africa
Three million children will die in the poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the failure of the global community to meet its promise of slashing the death rates of the under-fives by 2015, the UN will reveal tomorrow.
The grim figure emerged as George Bush paved the way for a landmark deal on lifting the huge debt burden on Africa's poorest countries when he announced that the US will stump up extra cash that in the long term will cancel $15bn (about £8.2bn) of accumulated debt.
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Ah, the marvels of "advanced" culture.
Perhaps a more worthy target for the USAs guns
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