If you haven't seen "Hotel Rwanda" yet, maybe rent it and see it. It'll help you see that there are really decent, generous, thoughtful people in Africa, and that there are also racist, evil, selfish, violent people in Africa. Remember that Zimbabwe doesn't have a 2nd Amendment....
Indeed. There was an article not too long ago reporting people demanding weepons from the MDC so they could fight.
I've often thought the best thing we could do would be to airdrop little packages of MREs, guns and ammo.