This is ridiculous. This is not a neighborhood dispute, it is an attack in a shopping mall by international criminals.
By Larry Mcshane
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Saturday, September 21, 2013, 8:32 AM
Updated: Sunday, September 22, 2013, 2:22 AM
Somalia's militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility (click here): 'The attack at #WestgateMall is just a very tiny fraction of what Muslims in Somalia experience at the hands of Kenyan invaders.' The White House National Security Council has offered its 'full support' to the Kenyan government in bringing the perpetrators to justice....
The entire international community should be ashamed of themselves. The longevity of the average Kenyan is about 18 years old and there are international criminal organizations reeking havoc within the country. Well, no surprise here, now there? Poverty and crime go hand in hand no matter what level of crime it is. This time it just happens to be very bad guys.
How does the international community justify the lack of training and equipping of national and local police forces? How does any President of any country expect to stop the impoverishment in the country if the police are equipped and trained well enough to enforce the law and handle these networks of criminals?
Every country should be fully ashamed of itself, especially France whom claims so much good work in peacekeeping in Africa. Who are France's allies in Africa and why aren't they better trained and equipped? France can't get financial assistance from Wall Street? Wall Street can support funding for police and national stability in these countries, but, they want the USA to wage war so they can have what they want.
There is something extremely wrong here. There is no reason for any of these law enforcement agencies to be compromised if this disaster of crime is ever going to end.
The median age in Kenya is 18.8 years with a possible life expectancy of 57.9 years. If people die young, what is the sense of planning for the future or valuing a job and why not overthrow a government with the help of al Qaeda in hopes the life expectancy extends or there are better hospitals and medical facilities or clean water. Why not? If I came of age at 12 years old and only was going to live perhaps another 15 years or less , why not become a child soldier and get my kicks early and what would I care who I am affiliated with?
The number one result of child malnutrition in Kenya is stunting (click here). Thirty-five percent of the children in Kenya are considered moderate to severely stunted because of malnutrition. Now, how many are actually learning? Beastfeeding is the best nutrition a child has, it starts at birth and continues in 54% of the child population until the age of 2 or later.
Forty-one percent of the people in Kenya are still drinking substandard water. The best quality of water is found in urban settings and then there are still 18 percent that don't have access to improved quality water.
Only 23% of children are treated for malaria. Only 47% are sleeping under mosquito nets.
If a child is lucky enough to make it to the age of 15, he or she will have a 48% chance of receiving knowledge of HIV. It is possible to receive that information, too, since at the age of 15 there is a literacy rate of at least 92%. There is currently a 67% of males and 37% of females that use condoms to prevent HIV.
The gross domestic product per capita is $820.00 US and the Purchasing Power per Capita (which is different than GDP) is $1720.00 per capita.
PPP (Purchasing Power PARITY per Capita) is an estimate. It is not a direct measure of the quality of life of a person in a country. Using a PPP basis is arguably more useful when comparing generalized differences in living standards on the whole between nations because PPP takes into account the relative cost of living and the inflation rates of the countries, rather than using just exchange rates which may distort the real differences in income.
Kenya is ranked 153 by the World Bank and 158 by the International Monetary Fund. Is there any wonder why international criminal organizations such as al-Shabab or al-Qaeda can set up shop in Kenya?
What is the global community doing to correct the course of the nations of Sub-Sahara Africa? Because what every it is is AIN'T working.
Widespread violence followed the 2007 election when both Mwai Kibaki, who had won the presidency in 2002, and rival candidate Raila Odinga claimed victory. Months of negotiations resulted in a power-sharing arrangement. A new constitution was adopted in August 2010. In November 2011, Kenya launched a military incursion into southern Somalia in response to alleged terrorist activity and kidnappings. Kenya is the transportation, communication, and financial hub of East Africa. Economic growth, hindered for decades by government mismanagement, weak property rights, and corruption, was improving before the post-election instability in 2007 and has picked up again since 2009. The government employs about one-third of the formal labor force, and civil service reform has been slow. Nearly 80 percent of employment is informal. Agriculture (primarily subsistence agriculture) accounts for about a quarter of GDP and employs a majority of the population.
There are many living off small parcels of land. I use the word subsistence loosely because even though the land is farmed to feed those that live on it, the production of the land hardly feeds those in need. There is considerable food insecurity and it should be no surprise children have poor outcomes.
10 September 2013
Last updated at 07:03 ET
...Despite President Kibaki's (click here) pledge to tackle
corruption, some donors estimated that up to $1bn had been lost to graft
between 2002 and 2005.
Other pressing challenges include high unemployment, crime and poverty. Droughts frequently put millions of people at risk....With severe droughts on a regular basis and their main export is dependent on agricultural outcomes there is complete understanding why Kenya fails it's people. Tourism had been a strong suit to the economy. The experience these nations have with oil production is more of a disaster than it is worth, but, it goes on anyway.
Kenya's chief exports are tea and coffee; fluctuations in their world prices and periodic droughts have tremendous economic impact......Kenya's population growth continually exceeds the rate of economic growth, resulting in large budget deficits and high unemployment. The country's well-developed transportation system has suffered from neglect in recent years.
Sub-sahara Africa is expected to fail all the time. The international community, while engaged, do not engage this region of the world with sincere success. This continent is expected to be over populated, under educated, impoverished and riddled with death and crime. This is chronic on this continent. Chronic. Nothing changes for the better? How are these nations ever to make the G20 into the G21 or the G22 if they haven't got a chance in the first place?
This shopping mall incident is retaliation within the war between Somalia and Kenya.
