http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16296849

The UK is sending food aid to Somalia The area where anyone over the age of 14 is encouraged to take up piracy and hold ships crews and cargo to ransom. A country with no effective governance and a breeding ground for terrorists

I haven't seen anything from the Government saying they are sending aid to the areas of the Southern Philippines which were so devasted in last weekends typhoon and floods.

I don't like seeing pictures of starving kids on TV, and am grateful that I'm not in their shoes. However, I can't help feeling that many of Somalia's problems are self inflicted, whereas the good people of CDO couldn't do much about last weekends freak typhoon - surely they are equally as deserving of UK aid as Somalia