GATES MOSQUITO NETS WRECKED AFRICA'S FISHERIES
Galante's account of an aid effort gone wrong.
The Gates Foundation, he says, handed out millions of mosquito nets to fight malaria in the Zambezi Valley — a region whose delta is a nursery for the fish that feed millions.
But the locals, who manage malaria their own way, used the fine-mesh nets to fish — scooping up the tiny baby fish that hold the whole population up.
The result, in his telling: a collapsed fishery and new hunger, "all because they were trying to help.
Old pub on the corner is a Somali cafe now, Nizan Cafe. Same story all over this town, another coffee shop, another shop, ownership just keeps shifting Somali. You watch this happen street by street and eventually the whole high street's changed hands without anyone voting on it.