"People are starving in Somalia" is actually relatively fixable. "Somalia was one of four regions singled out by the UN secretary-general in February for a £3.6 billion aid appeal"[0]. Just cut £3.6bn from the world's trillion dollar military budgets. Maybe a general principle could be made that no money is to go for bombs until people have food.

[0] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/somalia-dead-...