The Coming Famine – Trump Responds

I’ve been writing about the coming famine in Africa and my concern was two-fold, where will the aid come from?

And how will it get to the starving people without interference from local warlords and thieving governments? I worry about all this because I am aware a huge famine is coming, and I was also aware – aid commitments – were lacking badly.

The story below is very reassuring on both those counts.

Until I saw this, I had no idea Trump had his eye on this problem. Now, it’s clear he does, and frankly that makes me feel a lot better about the whole situation because he is the only man in the world that can do anything about both sides of the equation, aid itself AND delivery of the aid.

In other words, even if you have the food, you still need a good military to deliver it, because to do it any other way — is far too dangerous. Trump has both, and Trump has obviously been alerted by Nikki Haley — I love her — and now he’s doing the needed thing.

Everyday I watch Trump I am more and more impressed. The guy is smart, compassionate, and working like a beast.

VATICAN CITY (AFP) – US President Donald Trump told Pope Francis on Wednesday he was committing more than $300 million (270 million euros) to help prevent or tackle famine in Yemen and several countries in Africa. Trump, meeting the pontiff for the first time, said he had “renewed” the US “commitment to fighting global famine”, with the United Nations warning that about 20 million people across Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen are at risk. The UN has described the situation as the biggest humanitarian crisis in its history, but donor funding is falling far short. It appealed earlier this month for $4.4 billion, but said less than a third had been raised. “As he (Trump) relayed at the Vatican, the United States is proud to announce more than $300 million in anti-famine spending” for the area, a White House statement said. His announcement came just a day after the US State Department laid out plans to put “America first” and slash Washington’s budget for diplomacy and foreign aid by more than 30 percent. The deepest cuts will hit foreign assistance programmes and contributions by the world’s largest economy to international organisations like the United Nations and its global peacekeeping budget.