People need food to survive even if it takes to sacrifice their own vote.
Food is important for everyone. Even for you and me.
But number one cause of food shortages in Africa is civil war followed by weather catastrophe.
When civil wars start everyone shout where are the greats powers, but when they take steps if not to preempt them but at least to intervene as fast possible to avoid massacres then they become occupiers Forces.
Isn’t it to those Africans to work for their own progress ? Yes it their own duty but if you had known the very fabric of their societies you would understand that they are very tribal/ethnic based people. They have lot of difficulties to live in peace together. They have their extremism. One incident sparks full hatred massacres. Remember the Hutus and Tutsis war in Rwanda in the 90’s. Roughly 1 million killed.
I agreed on the fact that the Africans countries were ill made. But today they are reality. We cannot change this reality.
But even before the creation of those artificials countries the tribes, the différents ethnies, were often already at war. But still there is a responsibility of the powers of that times.
But today they are still divided as are some among us : because the other is Sindhi, or Baluchi, or Punjabi, or Pashtoon, or Shia, or Sunni, or Urdu speaking etc... have a look at some posts if few members the few last days here on PDF. The hate I seen here was at the same level I had seen toward me once time in my life in France. Thanks god french police was around me and the far right extremists weren’t able to harm me.
So what could or should do France ? Let them massacre each other’s ? Or should keep foot on ground there ?
Not easy to answer. But maybe the answer of France is the less wrong about all answers possible. And I fully support French support to those Africans countries who requested it.
May I also remind you what we did in Afghanistan by supporting one group over others for our own interests ?
Do you agree that Afghans we’re living in peace under the gov supported by Pakistan?
If you understand that you could easily understand also that others do also same. For good or wrong, but everyone do it when it has the power to do it.