Somalis have lived for 20 years without a functioning government and the services it would supply [GALLO/GETTY] Al-Shabab and Somalia‘s ‘far enemy’ Al-Shabab has withdrawn from Mogadishu, but the country is shattered from years of civil war and US military actions. Abdullahi walks slowly past makeshift stalls in a crowded Mogadishu [...]
Cognitive Dissonance in Somalia Brian Beyer, September 28, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum As in many other places around the globe, the United States has a bad track record of propping up leaders and groups in Somalia, only to watch them crumble months or years later. Siad Barre, the ruthless military dictator [...]
Hamas donates $140,000 to Somalia Published yesterday (updated) 13/09/2011 14:13 A boy sits looking over the Seyidka settlement for the famine stricken internally displaced people in Berkulan near Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, September 6. Famine has spread to six out of eight regions in southern Somalia, with 750,000 people facing imminent starvation, the United Nations [...]
Every day an estimated 1,300 children are dying from the famine in East Africa, says an aid activist [Reuters] As the UN and international aid agencies battle to operate out of Mogadishu, the civil war-torn Somali capital, smaller aid agencies have been quietly bringing medical teams, delivering aid and negotiating a move into al-Shabab territory as [...]
Displaced people and Somali Transitional Government forces in Dhobley, Somalia, July 2011 © 2010 AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam Somalia: End War Crimes to Help Tackle Famine Abuses by All Sides Contribute to Current Crisis AUGUST 14, 2011 RELATED MATERIALS: “You Don’t Know Who to Blame” MORE COVERAGE: Guardian: Somalia’s humanitarian crisis worsened by violations of [...]
Britain’s development secretary, Andrew Mitchell, steps down from an African Union armoured vehicle in Mogadishu. Photograph: Pool/Reuters Britain’s international development secretary on Wednesday warned that up to 400,000 children could die through starvation if urgent action is not taken to help Somalia and its neighbours in the Horn of Africa. Andrew Mitchell’s grim warning came as he saw [...]
A Somali government spokesperson denied HRW’s accusations that all parties are guilty in the Somalia conflict Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said all the parties in Somalia’s conflict have violated the rules of war and are guilty of causing civilian casualties in the fight for territorial control that is contributing to the humanitarian catastrophe there. The New York-based group said al-Shabab, [...]
Gaza. Somalia. Humanity Lives on Kids in Gaza. (Zoriah.net) By Ramzy Baroud I remember how exhilarated I felt when I was told I was old enough to fast for the month of Ramadan. My feelings had little to do with abstention from food and drink between dawn and sunset each day. For a child, there [...]
Somali forces have reinforced their hold on Mogadishu, but al-Shabab called its retreat a “tactical move” [AFP] Somalia‘s government has offered an open amnesty to al-Shabab fighters after the rebels made a surprise withdrawal from the capital, Mogadishu, over the weekend. “We offer an amnesty – put down your weapons and your guns, and come and [...]
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) The famine in the Horn of Africa is spreading and may soon engulf as many as six more regions of the lawless nation of Somalia, the U.N. humanitarian aid chief said Monday. Some “12.4 million people in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti are in dire need of help and the situation is [...]
A humanitarian disaster is imminent as conditions worsen in the world’s biggest refugee camp. [Azad Essa/Al Jazeera] Dadaab, Kenya — I am tying my shoelaces when the early morning call to prayer begins to sound over the scratchy loudspeakers at the neighbourhood mosque. It’s an early start from Garissa; we need to get to Dadaab [...]
