... of the issue waxes and wanes in the course of broader political and economic developments. The mas- sive famine in China under Chairman Mao s 1958 62 Great Leap Forward, a succession of se- vere droughts and associated famines in India in 1965 66, and the political violence that accompa- nied regime change...

... militias, and lawless streets were near carbon copies of coverage of the warlordism and famine that gripped Somalia 20 years ago a crisis that prompted the unprecedented and ulti- mately disastrous US-led humanitarian interven- tion in late 1992. The fact that Somalia today is still mired in chronic...