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Africa Horn
Somalia: More Than 2.6 Million Somalis in Crisis
2008-05-20
The increase in needs is due mainly to the addition of 600 000 urban poor, who are struggling to meet their household food needs in the face of rapidly increasing food and basic commodity prices, according to a recent assessment of FAO's Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU) for Somalia. The number of internally displaced people from Mogadishu, the capital, has also increased - by over 20 percent since January - and is now at 855 000 people, bringing the total number of IDPs in the country to over 1 million.
Posted by:Fred

#11  Except Uganda, where the President for Life is very accommodating towards whites and East Indians, and has seen the economy and the agricultural output of the country skyrocket. He is trying to undo the damage caused by Idi Amin's "Africa for Africans" program that took Uganda from the most promising economy in Africa to total ruin in just a few years.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2008-05-20 16:43  

#10  The absolute ulitmate quagmire. All of Africa should have a giant sign that reads KEEP OUT!
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-05-20 14:14  

#9  OK, but keep the crisis over there. Somalis are the bottom of the immigrant barrel.
Posted by: Mad Eye Gluck2704   2008-05-20 14:12  

#8  While starvation and death by machete at puberty is not for everyone, far be it from me to condemn this unique way of embracing change.
Posted by: George Smiley   2008-05-20 13:56  

#7  It's a cultural thing, crisis is just another lifestyle choice.
Posted by: George Smiley   2008-05-20 13:55  

#6  I think we all remember what happened in the 90's when they pulled this crap. This time let them figure it out for themselves.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2008-05-20 12:02  

#5  I can't remember a time when the somalis WERE NOT in crisis.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-05-20 10:01  

#4  There is supposedly a chinese saying going like 'when the fat one loses weight, the skinny one dies'; seems like I'm going to be lean and fit again, and somalis will die (or at least get even skinnier), it's a win-win situation from my point of view...
Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-05-20 09:00  

#3  Geez, that's...too bad.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-05-20 08:52  

#2  Sure, there may be an agenda behind the food commodities price increases. For the most part, it is that some people like to stuff their pockets with money based on any pretext. As for the population reduction conspiracy, not convinced that is the case. Yet. But there sure are people that are besotted by the idea.

There was time when Zimbabwe (or Rhodesia before) was able to produce food for a half of Africa. No mo. One may entertain the possibility that Mugabe is in cahoots with Bilderbergers.

Sarc aside... Mugabe is a population reductionist. He publicized his plan to reduce the ZimBobWe population to 600,000, from the current 2.5 million.
Posted by: Spike Uniter   2008-05-20 08:25  

#1  Compare wid TOPIX > THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS AND NIGERIA'S RESPONSE, + BLOGGER OP-ED: THE WEST HAS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT NIGERIA, + AFRICA, THIRD WORLD NATIONS HARDEST HIT BY GLOBAL FAMINE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-05-20 03:14  

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