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Or just no food aid in the first place. Importing food allows local populations to grow beyond sustainable levels. It makes a population extremely vulnerable to both artificial and natural scarcity, even in a sane nation where the birth rate doesn't expand to match and then slightly exceed the supply.
Of course, all the food aid went to countries that, within a generation, managed to outbreed even the aid, so they needed more, and more, and more.
We have essentially artificially created the greatest famine humankind has ever suffered, and we have little control over when it's going to begin.
Letting ten thousand starve would have been far kinder than bringing forth ten million who will one day suffer the same fate.
Yeah, well, one gets banned around here if you suggest the niggers should get Bob Barkered.
Simply allowing reality to impose its limits would have been sufficient, but the baizuo are physiologically incapable of accepting reality.
On top of that, foreign aid has two other problems as well:
When all the resources comes in, and whoever in the local country receives the shipments for distribution gains immense power, money and influence. Thus, you inevitably end up with strongmen and rampant corruption. (Even if some honest Western NGO - should such a thing exist - handles distribution directly, there's still locals demanding payment for letting them in, skimming stuff off the top, determining which locals actually get stuff, etc)
It vastly suppresses local economies. When other people flood in food, clothing, medicine, etc. to your area that they just give away, what reason do you have to make any of that yourself? Sure, there are some ambitious people who try but even then they are up against vast competition from free stuff. So, in the end, you end up with economies that are entirely dependent on foreign aid and large numbers of people who don't have anything useful to do.
Ten million is an understatement. Africa will lose a third of its population. They'll de facto invade the entire rest of the planet.
In a genuine famine, they wouldn't make it off the continent. The current invasion is all economic opportunism. If these people were hungry, they'd be starving before they made it to the Mediterranean.
If and when a total economic collapse happens is when things get ugly. Africa is going to outdo the Holodomor and the Great Leap Forward and it all could've been avoided.