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Priorities must change if we’re to end hunger
It’s not that there isn’t enough money to make sure that everyone on the planet has enough food in their stomachs – it’s that politicians choose to spend the money elsewhere, says ROGER McKENZIE
A Somali man and his wife who fled drought-stricken areas build the frame of a makeshift shelter at a camp for the displaced on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia Saturday, June 4, 2022.

WE HAVE to move beyond the vicious cycle of famine, death, aid and exploitation in Africa.

It seems almost trite to say something like this when areas such as the Horn of Africa are experiencing their worst drought in four decades.

But it doesn’t make it less true that we have to find a way of breaking this seemingly never-ending situation even when there have been at least 448 deaths this year at malnutrition treatment centres in Somalia alone.

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