Rich nations are discriminating against Africa

Here comes a news brief from the AP so important it made the tiny font, "News in Brief," section on page 4 of the May 12, 2005 Boston Metro (page 2 featured an article about Macaulay Culkin taking the stand in the Michael Jackson trial with large headline): Rich nations are discriminating against Africa on desperately needed aid for humanitarian crises, resulting in meager food rations for thousands of people, no food for others and many deaths, the U.N. humanitarian chief said. Jan Egeland told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that donors are more generous if humanitarian crises happen in Europe or the Middle East than in Africa, where all the major humanitarian challenges are located and the need is the greatest.