A bad time to be hungry..

As the world reels from the effect of lack of adequate quantities of food to feed its billions, it is perhaps ironic that other more trumpeted world events hold our attention, and global food shortages does not.

The daily news of record high oil prices..
The much talked about credit crunch and home fore-closures..
The tragic tale of a cyclone claiming tens of thousands of lives in myanmar..
..and the earthquake in China claiming its own tens of thousands..
The poverty, disease and conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa.. a perennial tale..

These events certainly are important, and their effect most probably makes food shortages more keenly felt..

Whilst food shortages is acknowledged, there is less robust talk of a collective effort to surmount the problem of a lack of this very basic of human needs..

A very basic human need left unsatisfied could only result in less than tolerant human beings, as the recent food related riots in Haiti and protests in Senegal have shown..

The People Vs Mugabe: The struggle continues..

Morgan Tsvangirai [of the opposition MDC party in Zimbabwe] has made the decision to participate in a run-off election, after initially refusing to do so.. an about-face that is most probably in the best interest of Zimbabwe.

The decision to participate in a run-off election provides yet another opportunity for the man and woman on the streets to push hard for honest, as well as considerate leadership regardless of the brutality (real or perceived) of the Zimbabwean regime.

In the quest for peace and justice, the people on the streets will have to speak up, no matter how many times,.. or be ground into the dust by an inconsiderate Government..