No problems! I'm arguing that a government can prevent a famine related to a severe drought. The rivers never dried up, many people simply didn't have access to them and no one has asked why. Also, there were places with running taps, people selling chlorinated/cleaned water and yet a quarter of a million people died - these people were probably IDP's a million times over, someone needed to step in. A government could have done something if small businesses have the tools to supply water even in a drought. There's groundwater, river water, desalinated water - a lot of could have been done, it doesn't have to be deterministic like waiting for rain. The food crisis was predicted months in advance. The farms could have been irrigated, the farmers could have had support to make sure that they didn't tire out the soil (from not having enough land to farm consistently on - some needs to be left fallow for the soil to recover and you also need to farm a variety of things to make good soil - how much of that can a poor farmer achieve on his own?) and so on. Somalia has enough to never experience hunger on that scale - it just needs a body or a government to run the operation. So far no one is interested.
When his people needed him in galkayo dude was nowhere to be seen
You don't even notice how ridiculous you look for using a famine to score political points in the defence of team MOD but I need to remind myself that you're the same person who asked why I don't like Barre since I'm not Omar Mohamud.
