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NAIROBI, Kenya — East African leaders promised Friday to invest in solutions to recurring droughts that have left 13 million people dependent on food aid, but said little about tackling the corruption that activists partly blame for the widespread hunger.
Experts have long said that governance, not rainfall, is the key issue in preventing widespread hunger.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs said that sending food aid could cost up to 10 times the amount of money that could be invested to make a region productive.
He spoke during a two-day U.N.-sponsored conference aimed at finding permanent solutions to the disasters caused by recurring droughts in the Horn of Africa.
