Burundi now suffers droughts

JOey Sawyer/ 8"11 pm? 2/14


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4185401.stm

Here is the link to the article

I found that healthline.com is a good resource for stuff like this.

Drought has caused massive food shortages in the small nation of Burundi. They lost their one crop that was drought resistant, the cassava plant, to disease. There is effort now to find new drought resistant crops as well as aid because the rainy season is over a year late. A million people are hurting for food and it is estimated 50 million bucks is needed for their survival.
these people are having to cross the border into Rwanda looking for work. They work the fields for less than 50cents a day. they call this gupagasa.
This is just one more example of once predictable weather patterns causing famine in Africa. This is why through the ages of these peoples' histories they have been fairly nomadic in this area, or at least migratory. Now because outsiders have imposed borders, they are trapped in a dying country and not welcome in the surrounding countries, because they are hurting as well. The natural ebb and flow is gone. The balance these people once found with their land has been overcome by institutions formerly unknown to them that essentially do not work for them. It appears that Africa's governments are failing where their tribes once succeeded.