Somalia's famine: their agony and our historic part in it
Famine is not remote. Famine is us, our history, our involvement and calls down our duty, writes Jon Snow.
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The UN reveals famine has spread to three quarters of Somalia, threatening 750,000 people with imminent starvation. Islamic Relief in the UK tells Channel 4 News the situation is now “catastrophic”.
The Disasters Emergency Committee tells Channel 4 News that just over a quarter of money it has raised towards the Horn of Africa Appeal is going to Somalia, the epicentre of the drought crisis.
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And here’s an awkward truth: the more help international aid agencies pour into these refugee camps, the more permanent they will become. A dependency culture is being created here, for want of any internal solution to Somalia’s problems.
We have four vehicles in our convoy, lumbering giants mounted with machine guns fore and aft. And so we trundle out of the airport, feeling like sitting ducks, through the wrecked city of Mogadishu, failed capital of a notoriously failed state.
Famine is not remote. Famine is us, our history, our involvement and calls down our duty, writes Jon Snow.
The US gives $28 million in aid but says the money won’t be used in rebel-held famine regions, unless it receives assurances from militants. Channel 4 News talks to the head of the UN in Somalia.
The hard-line Somali armed group al-Shabaab welcomes “Muslim and non-Muslim” foreign aid groups as the region suffers one of its worst droughts in 60 years.
The head of the UN in Somalia exclusively tells Channel 4 News he is “not sure the population can survive until the end of the year” unless urgent action is taken, amid the worst drought in 20 years.
The case is intriguing, partly because it provides some of the first indications that extremists in Somalia and Yemen may be linking up; and partly because Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame’s arrival for trial in New York around midnight on July 4th reignites the debate about the legal justification for flying military detainees into US jurisdiction from overseas.
A Somali man is taken to the US to face charges of assisting terror groups in Yemen and Somalia, after being detained on a US Navy ship for more than two months.
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