INTRODUCTION On June 8th of 1991 the United States celebrated a relatively easy end to Operation Desert Storm. During this same period Africa’s Somalia was in a heap of trouble. The country was in chaos due to political strife; Somalian President Siad Barre’s reign had recently been ousted by other clans. However, these clans soon ...
“[In Somalia], we would walk without shoes all the time. We understand that the earth is where we’re from, the earth is where we’ll return to. I’ve been wearing shoes since I left home. It’s as small as that, but it’s as significant as that.” “The biggest protection I received was not that I didn’t ...
Recent U.S. air strikes on Somalia, which killed at least 70 innocent civilians, were justified by the U.S. government and their media flunkies with copious use of the hysteria-inducing catchwords “Islamist” and “al Qaeda.” As it turned out, the “al Qaeda operatives” killed were actually herdsmen with no ties to any organization on the ever-growing ...
I used to work for a nonprofit organization that offered literacy and English language tutoring to people in the surrounding community who needed it. We also offered after-school leadership programs for teenagers, one of which I supervised. One of the teenage girls who worked under me was a native of Somalia. She was a very ...
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