CAR: Humanitarian disaster looming

Where? Quite. We find a lot of bias in today's corporate international media and a lot of omissions, among these the pending humanitarian crisis in Aleppo, Syria, where western-backed terrorists are starving civilians to death and another is the current crisis in the Central African Republic involving 4.5 million people.

Where is this story? The answer is difficult to find, but it must be told. So serious it is that the UNO has warned that the entire population of the country is at risk. The country is facing a sanitation crisis after months of fighting have brought basic services to a standstill. 1.6 million of the population of 4.6 million are already in need of assistance, and according to Valerie Amos, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, "the entire population of 4.6 million people is affected by the crisis. Half of those are children".

So, 2.3 million children without access to food, potable water, healthcare, schooling, or even safety, and the rest of the world turns a blind eye because it is Africa and hey! the soccer season is about to start. How much did they pay for that new striker from Brazil?

Fighting between government troops and rebels increased during the first half of this year, culminating in the erosion of basis public services - the food distribution network has been severely disrupted and the population faces acute shortages of basic needs, including water, sanitation, shelter and healthcare.

For Ms. Amos, the key first step is for the transitional government to restore the rule of law so that access for humanitarian teams can be provided. As usual, women and children bear the brunt of the crisis and as usual, calls being made to the international community, which spends trillions, or thousands of billions, of USD on weapons, have fallen on deaf ears. Only 45 per cent of those in desperate need have received any kind of assistance - less than half - and vaccination programs have reached just 123,000 of 680,000 children targeted.

After all, why spend money saving lives in Africa if you can provide terrorists with weapons and munitions to destabilize Syria and further your geopolitical greedy aims?

Another telling comment on Humankind in 2013.

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru

 

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