Africa Must Learn to Feed Itself First

Data currently held by my own agency (CRS) and partners like Caritas Internationalis clearly indicate that nearly 6 million people in the Sahel region of West Africa are struggling to meet their daily food needs. Severe malnutrition threatens the lives of 1.6 million children. Sadly when our so called leaders meet as they recently did in Mauritius they never come up with concrete actionable strategies of addressing our African challenges; even those as basic as feeding our population. They only sing that old and tired song "African solutions to African problems." We are not possibly going to solve any problem if we cannot feed ourselves first.