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Continent of Gigantic Problemsout of 1,000 in Cameron died before reaching five years of age. 18 Hundreds of thousandsof people infected with HIV live in both of these countries and tens of thousands die fromAIDS each year. It would have been difficult for donors to have chosen more inappropriatecountries to visit and preach to the uneducated and also suggestible people that condomsare sinful and do not protect against AIDS.Here is the article mentioned above:When the Devil Wears TiaraChristians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and believers of long forgotten gods as wellas atheists can reasonably well agree on what is evil and what is good. For most of them,good is embodied in healthy, well fed, happy people, in the joyful prattle of children, inbeauty, peace and harmony, in the hope of the future.On the opposite side, evil is for all of them embodied in disease, poverty, suffering, war,death, loneliness and despair. Many painters of the European Middle Ages and Renaissancevery clearly depicted this universal idea of evil in their paintings. My list of the features ofgood and evil does not aspire for completeness, but it captures the essential.In recent years I have repeatedly had the opportunity to see the many faces of theelemental evil of human existence on the African continent. I saw endless pain and despairof young dying women and men in South Africa, I have seen coffin shops around the roadsoff the coast of Lake Victoria, I saw women selling their emaciated bodies for food so theycould feed their children, slums full of poverty around Johannesburg, Nairobi and othercities, burned buildings and fresh graves of tribal war in western Kenya, I saw malnourishedchildren with their bloated empty tummies, packed orphanages... To me evil hasa very clear and concrete face.The first face of evil in Africa is called poverty, hunger and malnutrition. One of the rootcauses of this evil is explosive growth of population. There were around 100 million peopleliving in sub-Saharan Africa in 1900. By 2005 the number was close to 800 million. Withsuch growth, two billion people would live south of the Sahara in 2050—there are 6.7 billionpeople living on our entire planet today (author’s note—7 billion in 2012). There wasjust one city with more than 1 million people in Africa back in 1960. Today there are 40.The result of population explosion is the chronic malnutrition and starvation of tens of millionsof children, and when the famines break out periodically, deaths of millions. Recently,Africa has produced one third less food than the continent needs to feed its population andthe situation is getting worse year by year. Millions of Africans annually survive thanks onlyto food aid. Famines are common. With each new million hungry mouths, however, Africais coming closer to the time of mega-famines, the days of evil, anger and sadness.The second face of evil in Africa is called AIDS. Since the HIV virus emerged and startedto spread among people, death reaps especially on the African continent. There were18 http://www.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/mortchildmortality/en/index.html33