Humanitarian crisis in Somalia is worse than Darfur »
Posted By Alexia 1 year ago in NewsThe worst humanitarian crisis in Africa may not be unfolding in Darfur, but rather here, along a 32-kilometer strip of busted-up asphalt, several United Nations officials said.
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Blackacereturn1 year ago
I wonder what they mean by globallization...too often it seems to exclude the dark nations. Why do we still have the highest tariff on Africa while china and other nations enjoy free trade. It's not like we don't make money out of Africa. Is it because we would rather see these people suffer than feed them.
We talk about leaders stealing that's why we don't do anything there...funny how this has not stop us from helping china and Russia...we should face it, this is about race. The day we own up to that this world will change for the better.
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hyperbola1 year ago
It is precisely because bushie went "back to Somalia" in 2005-2006 - complete with support for corrupt dictators and american mercenaries- that we now have another disaster. Seems bushie just likes killing people.
Bush has done it again: Somalia
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aceofspades11 year ago
"If this were happening in Darfur, there would be a big fuss. But Somalia has been a forgotten emergency for years."
that's precisely the situation & what it will be no matter how much aid is given it's a terrible thing to say but by writing them off eventually this constant fighting & corruption will end
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slate1 year ago
Finnally,,,,, a problem that the anti-war crowd can deem worthy enough of a cause for our young men and women to die for.
You know it will happen,,, eventually there will be death and destruction in the future and those that hate war so much will feel ok with death, destruction and the profits all these things make, as long as their side's doing it.
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hyperbola1 year ago
Well Ace, in these situations I am always reminded of the words of a Ugandan foreign minister about the civil war in his country. Paraphrasing:
"Thank god no one was interested. If foreigners had gotten involved it would have been much more bloody."
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hyperbola1 year ago
Minimal government interference? Actually Somalia has been suffering from a surfeit of governmental interference - by foreign governments. The current genocide was largely generated by bushie paying off a corrupt ethiopian dictator to invade.
The only time in the past 16 years that Somalians have had a bit of peace was when they generated their own internal arrangements - the Muslim Courts.
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1-2-Oscar1 year ago
You are indeed a strange person, hyperbola. To suggest that any foreign nation has effectively exercised governing authority in Somalia during the past two decades is worse than merely absurd. You can get there by being dishonest, or you can get there by being insane, but you can't get there by looking at the reality that is Somalia.
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