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2011-08-28 Africa Horn

More Somali famine victims fleeing to Yemen: UNHCR

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Posted by Steve White 2011-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 There wouldn't be even *one* Somali famine victim if the UN and Aid agencies had been banned from the place a decade ago.

Somalia is 3 countries: South Central, Somaliland and Puntland.

UN failure to recognise this has caused every problem there from the rise of al Shabaab to piracy.

And dumping grain under the aegis of the "world food program" has caused starvation by putting local farmers out of a job.

They have abundant water and fertile land -- they don't NEED your grain

What they need is some development aid to go directly to Somaliland and Puntland, and for NONE to go to South Central Somalia ... starve out the Shabaab.

Posted by anon1 2011-08-28 03:00|| 2011-08-28 03:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Wouldn't argue against you on that one, though there certainly has been a drought this year.

Good physician-friend of mine worked in Kenya for a year. He asked a local Kenyan doc what the folks in Kenya most wanted from the world aid community. The answer: "go home".

The explanation the Kenyan doc gave was very similar to yours.

Posted by Steve White 2011-08-28 11:33|| 2011-08-28 11:33|| Front Page Top

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