The African country of Mauritania, a democracy for the last couple years, has been overthrown by a coup.
The whole article that describes this is here. That article also has a map of where Mauritania is (I confess that I myself wasn't sure of that either).

is the title of the second part of the Washington Post series on the Global Food Crisis.  Subtitled "Mauritania, and much of Africa, relies on imported food. As trade breaks down, destitute people face tough choices," it focuses particularly on that poor country as it tries to demonstrate the dimensions of the spreading problem.  Like the first part, about which I wrote yesterday in Hunger, today's piece has accompanying tables and sidebars to illustrate the depths of the problem.  For now consider just this applicable to Mauritania:

The price of sorghum, a major staple used to make porridge, has jumped 20% in six months, a sharp rise in a region where more than 60% of the people earn less than a $1 a day.

It's time an all-new Scotty Show!  Now available in High Definition!

Basically, here's the scoop.  We take Scotty's press briefing.  We abridge it for the sake of your sanity and mine.  Then we dump it all into the Bullshit Detector.  When bullshit is detected (always), it translates the message into something we all can understand.

Press corps comments and questions are italicized for her pleasure.
Scotty's bullshit is thick and bold, like in real life.
Translations are in suitably plain text, which I'm sure signifies something profound.

And now, without further ado... The Scotty Show!