This needs to stop. Life in many parts of Africa is not easy. Most of the countries I have visited are some of the poorest in the world. Death, famine, disease, and pain are a constant, as millions struggle just to survive another day. A recent report by the United Nations says that 180 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are undernourished.
Some children go days without a meal.
AIDS is reaching epidemic proportions. Seventy percent of the world's AIDS cases are in Africa, where more than 16,000 people a day are being infected. People in many of these countries desperately need an end to the years of civil strife, terrorism, and brutality that they endure on a daily basis. Babies are dying of starvation. Children are being captured and sold into slavery.