Somalia is completely screwed

A British government minister says up to 400,000 Somali children could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken.

International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell on Wednesday made the first visit in 18 years by a British minister to Somalia's capital of Mogadishu, where he met with government leaders and aid groups.

Mitchell said in neighboring Kenya that Britain will give UNICEF more than $41 million in additional aid. That will allow nearly 200,000 people to have two months of supplementary food rations and vaccinations against measles for 800,000 children.

More than 12 million people need food aid in drought-struck East Africa. More than 2 million live in areas controlled by the Somali militant group al-Shabab.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/17/somalia-famine-400000-children_n_929688.html

 

And the biggest issue, I think, is getting the food to those who need it instead of into the hands of the militants.

 

I wish everyone would join the oatmeal for everybody project. Besides they're black who cares right.

 

Link??

 

Somalia has not had a central govt since '91. The fucken warlords are stealing some of the aid/food and selling it in black market.
I hate to resonate empyrium's feeling, but Blk nations are always fucked up.

Now you can flame me.

 

I sent some money to UNICEF in hopes that some of the aid will make it through to the people who need it. I wish there was more that I could do, but I just don't know what.

That's why I signed up to sponsor two children.

 

I made it up years ago. I never understood why we can't do that. Oatmeal is so cheap and readily available and nourishing. Why aren't we giving it to the poor.

 

Truth? Because we pay subsidies to farmers for other crops, so instead we have things like government cheese.

It's not much, but have you seen http://freerice.com/ ? You play vocabulary/geography/math games to donate rice to hungry people via the UN. There's a page there specifically about the Horn of Africa, and other ways to donate to help end hunger.

 

Agreed. Its pretty embarrassing how incompetent they are.

 

There are instances when NATO and the U.S. military should go into a country and occupy it, Somalia is one of those instances.

No natural resources the rest of the world covets and the global community could give a damn how many innocent people die.

What better purpose is there for an armed forces mission than SAVING innocent lives??

BTW, I think people are oversimplifying why Somalia is a failed state. To blame it on their race/ethnicity is really ignorant.

 

Yeah we did during Clinton administration. They gun down Americans and dragged their dead bodies in the streets of Mogadishu. I am sure you've seen or heard of Blackhawak down. They hate Americans, the fuckers were even shooting and literally murdering frail Catholic nuns who went down there to help. If you fucken so hard on for his, how about you sign up for the Army and ask to be shipped down there tough guy. We are already in 3 fucken wars, we don't need another.

 

It was screwed when I went in 1992
It was screwed when I went in 1994

It will be screwed now.

I'm trying to think of any former British Colonly that wasn't fucked up after dee white folks raped and "pulled out"

 

lol

 

Yep this right here. As the old maxim goes you can only help those who want to help themselves.

I'm sorry to say it but that place is a right ole shithole.

Full of gangs of roaving and marauding bandits and now the religious mongers are there as well.

Its always something with them, reminds me of that one relative you are sick and tired of, can never get their shit together and always bumming for something.

The U.S. got the hell out of that place and has stayed out, the last thing they need is to get involved in that part of the world.

You already have Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, just formed South Sudan and of course Somalia, that place is a power keg folks.

 

You're absolutely spot on. Though I think it should be the UN or NATO. America can't be the world's police force. And shouldnt be.

 

America? I know, I know, I'm a brat.

 

It Still Continues..............

 

We are ALL going to Hell.

Man's inhumanity to man, and all we can do is sit back with contempt.

 

That's hard to see. Does anyone know a legit place were we can go and donate? I usually donate to the red cross because, you see them everywhere but, in this case I don't know.