Supporters of Niger's National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland gather for a demonstration in Niamey on August 11, 2023 near a French airbase in Niger. PHOTO | AFP
The correlation between politics and business is a given. For generations, business and the concept of profit have driven politics, policies and even led to wars. It’s a symbiotic relationship and the two feed off each other.
Between 1959 and 1962, China experienced what has been considered the greatest famine in history that resulted in the deaths of what some estimate to be up to 45 million people. It got so bad that cannibalism became a common option.
