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Why Are Some African Governments Wasting Money While Africans Are Starving To Death?
Millions of USD allocated on tourist sites, tourism, government waste, campaigning.
Saturday, 9 April 2022
By: TB Obwoge
In a social media post under a Ghana news story many Ghanians admitted to only eating one meal a day, for various reasons, most stated money. There were some saying that long hours at work made them unable to eat a meal. The majority said they couldn’t afford to eat more than one complete meal in a day.
As it is in the Ghanian culture to say “MeNsaAka”, “You’re Invited”, when they sit down to eat. But you better decline this very polite invitation as this might be the only meal that, the person is having during the course of their long day.
The East African headline points out that there are 50 million people in the area of East Africa facing starvation. Much due to lack of rainfall as well as maize import costs. The entire population of Kenya is am estimated 53 million people (according to…
