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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 Gaddafi regime may not be the only casualty of events over the past six months. Africa’s most powerful nations may have been compromised by their dealings with Libya under the discredited colonel.
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.
Britain will help Libya’s new rulers restore basic services as they strengthen their grip on the country. But the hunt for Colonel Gaddafi continues.
Colonel Gaddafi calls on his supporters to march on Tripoli and “purify” the capital of Libya’s rebels, as International Editor Lindsey Hilsum meets neighbourhood groups patrolling the streets.
As regime change unfolds in Libya, Channel 4 News also learns a recent intelligence assessment believed Gaddafi would still be in power in September.
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.
A tearful Jerry Rawlings, Ghana’s former president, tells Jon Snow that “We’ll be burying lots of children soon” unless aid money and medical supplies are received to alleviate the Somalia famine.
Turkey officially recognises Libya’s anti-government rebels and promises to give them at least $200m in aid.
A senior French diplomat tells Channel 4 News a weapon drop to rebel-held areas was a legally-justified move to protect civilians, and that France won’t rule out deploying more arms in the future.
Every time Abdinasir Ibrahim pulls on his running shoes, he risks his life. In Somalia, training for the Olympics is a dangerous business, as Jamal Osman discovered.
Rebels are given a financial lifeline as allies seek to unlock Libya’s assets. A lawyer tells Channel 4 News the allies are now aggressively targeting Gaddafi while in Misrata the struggle continues.
Former Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussas EU sanctions have been removed and his assets unfrozen, as a divided NATO bombard Tripoli and a defiant Gaddafi attacks Misrata.
Foreign Secretary William Hague is attending international talks on the Libya conflict in Doha, amid fears that a bloody stalemate has taken hold of the country.
As a spokesman for Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo tells Channel 4 News “the stage is set for genocide” Jon Snow asks what has gone wrong?