Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
It's a terrible tragedy but you can pretty much assume relief shipments of food and medicine will be confiscated by the local Al Qaeda and other gun-toting a-holes and sold to make a profit. We already got our check in the box for Somalia back in 1993, as I recall it didn't work out very well.
I agree. The sad story of Africa. NO MATTER what WE do it will almost always turn out the same. I have lived and traveled extensively on the continent and have come to firmly believe that we should send absolutely nothing there. All we're doing ultimately is putting AK-47s into the hands of children armies.....
We have enough to sort out here on our continent before we meddle where we're not welcome anyway.......
