Matthew Parris has a devastating column in the Times on African kleptocracy, the self-serving ineffectiveness of the NGO's, and the passiveness of Western elites in the face of widespread suffering. It's too long to summarize, but here's the first graf:

GOD SPARE AFRICA from mercy. God deliver Africa from The Guardian. God protect Africa from the Synod of the Church of England. God send Africa a little less of our charity and understanding, and a little more of our anger and disdain.

Read the whole thing here.