Political Food Fight in Southern Africa
Margaret Zeigler Saturday, 1 March 2003
In my dreams, I also saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk After them, seven other heads sprouted—withered and thin and scorched by the east wind. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none could explain it to me.
Famine in ancient Egypt, Genesis 41:22-24
Last fall, while the cameras of the major network news organizations focused on the impending war with Iraq and the mid-term elections in the United States, a humanitarian disaster was unfolding across seven nations in southern Africa. As early as February 2002, international food aid agencies began sounding the alarm that up to 14 million people across Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe would face severe food shortages by December, 2002.
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