Somalia
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(This item is my entry for Blog Action Day October 16, 2011. This year's topic is "Food". My past contributions to Blog Action Day can be read here.)
Global franchises. Here's an example:
Still fretting because there's not enough in it for you in the carbon tax? Contemplate, if you will, the technical definition of a famine:
Far more serious than the caviar pirates of the Caspian are the outlaws that have been operating off the coast of Somalia for a number of years. The situation is now so serious that the passage of humanitarian aid to thousands of Somalians is in jeopardy.
This from the World Food Programme:
21 May 2007 - WFP today appealed for high-level international action to stamp out piracy in waters off Somalia, warning that the flow of relief supplies to the country was under severe threat.
Peace and joy at the crease after a life dented by war and tragedy - Cricket
(Peter Roebuck/Sydney Morning Herald, 3.2.06)