Somalia: Ugh

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Somalia: Ugh

Postby Sri Lanky » Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:25 pm

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Postby coldharvest » Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:29 pm

Somalia: Ugh.....and then some.

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Re: Somalia: Ugh

Postby LechoZX » Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:49 pm

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UN declares famine in southern Somalia

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July 21, 2011 - 3:14AM

AFP - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

The UN has officially declared famine in two southern Somalia regions as the world slowly mobilises to save the 12 million people battling hunger in the region's worst drought in 60 years.

The United States urged the al-Qaeda-inspired rebels controlling the area to allow the return of the relief groups they expelled two years ago while aid groups warned many would die without urgent action and funding.

UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordination for Somalia Mark Bowden declared that southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions had been hit by famine.

Advertisement: Story continues below The UN said an estimated 3.7 million people - or nearly half of the war-torn country's population - were facing a food crisis.

"If we don't act now, famine will spread to all eight regions of southern Somalia within two months, due to poor harvests and infectious disease outbreaks," Bowden told reporters.

"If we are not able to intervene immediately, tens of thousands more Somalis may die."

Somalia, which has been affected by almost uninterrupted conflict for 20 years and become a byword for "failed state", is the worst affected nation but parts of Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Djibouti are also hit.

The United States urged neighbouring Eritrea, one of the most secretive countries in the world, to reveal the scope of its own food situation.

"Given the combination of severity and geographic scope this is the most severe food security crisis in Africa since the 1991/2 Somalia famine," the UN added.

Famine implies that at least 20 per cent of households face extreme food shortages, acute malnutrition in over 30 per cent of people, and two deaths per 10,000 people every day, according to UN definition.

The Shebab expelled foreign aid groups two years ago, accusing them of being Western spies and Christian crusaders.

However, the UN last week airlifted in the first supplies since the group said it would lift restrictions on aid.

Malnutrition rates in Somalia are currently the highest in the world, with peaks of 50 per cent in certain areas of southern Somalia, Bowden said.

"Every day of delay in assistance is literally a matter of life or death for children and their families in the famine affected areas," Bowden said.

Over 78,000 Somalis have fled to seek refuge in neighbouring Ethiopia and Kenya in the past two months.

In Kenya, they are streaming into overcrowded camps hosting some 380,000 people - more than four times the original capacity.

On Tuesday, the UN refugee agency said death rates among refugees arriving in Ethiopia's Dolo Ado area reached 7.4 per 10,000 in June, 15 times more than the baseline rate in sub-Sahara Africa.

Somalia's embattled government welcomed the famine declaration - the first since the term was defined by the UN in 2008 - as a sign that the world was beginning to acknowledge the scope of the disaster.

"At least it is great that the world has recognised the magnitude of hardship the poor Somalis are facing," said Abdulkadir Moalim Nur, a minister in the president's office, told AFP.

The Food and Agricultural Organisation appealed on Wednesday for $US120 million ($A112.25 million) for the 12 million drought victims in the Horn of Africa.
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Re: Somalia: Ugh

Postby Statemachine » Thu Apr 04, 2013 6:09 pm

Appears not much has changed since the Italians got the boot from there.My father-in-law was there in the 30's and very early 40's.Employee of mine born in Mombassa with a father from Kismayu was there for a time,nothing lasts....
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Re: Somalia: Ugh

Postby Ultra Swain » Mon Apr 15, 2013 1:10 am

Statemachine wrote:Appears not much has changed since the Italians got the boot from there.My father-in-law was there in the 30's and very early 40's.Employee of mine born in Mombassa with a father from Kismayu was there for a time,nothing lasts....


"Nothing has changed much since the Italians...then "nothing lasts....."

Which one it is man?
Geez,am I NOT ALLOWED TO BE INTENSE FOR JUST 10 FUCKING SECONDS??!!!!!!!
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Re: Somalia: Ugh

Postby coldharvest » Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:58 am

Ultra Swain wrote:
Statemachine wrote:Appears not much has changed since the Italians got the boot from there.My father-in-law was there in the 30's and very early 40's.Employee of mine born in Mombassa with a father from Kismayu was there for a time,nothing lasts....


"Nothing has changed much since the Italians...then "nothing lasts....."

Which one it is man?

it is all one and simultaneous
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Re: Somalia: Ugh

Postby Statemachine » Sat Apr 27, 2013 12:18 pm

The Kenyan described it as no police,no rules except those laid down by Al Shabah or whatever their name is.Whoever has the most guns rules.If you leave your home for any period people will dismantle it for materials.Nobody works.An Italian related to nobility actually had a pretty good working agricultural model city in Somalia,I could dig up the book if anybody is interested.
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Re: Somalia: Ugh

Postby coldharvest » Sun Apr 28, 2013 9:13 pm

Statemachine wrote:Whoever has the most guns rules.

...like every government on Earth?
An Italian related to nobility actually had a pretty good working agricultural model city in Somalia,I could dig up the book if anybody is interested.

Yes please.
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Re: Somalia: Ugh

Postby Statemachine » Wed May 01, 2013 11:43 am

Villagio Duca Degli Abruzzi.About 90 km Nw of Mog.
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Re: Somalia: Ugh

Postby Statemachine » Thu May 02, 2013 10:47 am

This site is in Italian but has the best picture gallery.Just about everything including cotton and sugar was produced there.
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