How will we feel about cutting aid if we see the kind of shocking scenes of starvation that started Live Aid in the 1980s?
Ultimately, it is economic growth not traditional aid which will support the growing populations of the developing world.
Of the 66 million people globally who have been forcibly displaced, approximately 40.3 million are displaced within their own countries.
40 million people are currently in urgent need of food assistance. The G7 summit at the end of May has an opportunity to act.
Unless we sort out the problems right now, then I fear it is a battle I will lose.
Now’s the time to force the country’s warring factions to the negotiating table.