Why is this article even in the paper?
U.S. need to get some "Al-CIA-Duhs" soon?
Or is it because the Islamists are winning?
New York Times is silent on the issue, so it must not be important!
"Somalia's poorest welcome families displaced by fighting" by Stephanie McCrummen/Washington Post December 16, 2007
MARKA, Somalia - After she escaped the urban battleground of Mogadishu, walked 20 days in the blasting heat, slept in the sand, dreamed of explosions, and watched her four children get sicker and skinnier, Asiya Ali arrived one recent evening at this unfamiliar seaside town.
There was no international relief effort to greet her, only the setting sun and a town full of people already strained by the worst crop failure in recent memory. And so, scared and tired, Ali said, she turned to the only resource she had left: her clan.
Asiya told anyone she found wandering the soft sand streets of Marka, a process that led her to Fatima Mohamed, a distant relative she had never met:
"I'm Bimal. She cooked tea for us, gave sugar for the children, gave us tomatoes and bread," Ali recalled. "She said, 'Welcome.' "
How come poor people suffering such privations are kinder than Amurkn stinkholes?
AmeriKa is a fucking horrrible country now!
Self-centered and fucking stoo-pid!
Nearly a year after Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia with US support to oust an Islamic movement there, the Somali capital of Mogadishu remains locked in a brutal urban war that has driven an estimated 600,000 people - more than half the city's population - into the countryside.
UN officials say Somalia has descended into the continent's worst humanitarian crisis, a situation veering toward famine in some areas. Yet in the narrow streets that wind through this town of whitewashed buildings, it is difficult to find even one encampment of displaced people or a family that has been turned away.
Yup, while America has homeless vets and starving people roaming our freezing cold streets!
O' Somalis. you are so much better than shit-chewing Amurkns!
Instead, the tired and hungry arrivals - about 15,000 of them this year - have been quietly absorbed into the grass-roofed houses of local residents such as Mohamed, who estimates she has hosted 10 families over the past year. Most of them, she said, are related to her through clan - Somalia's intricate network of families, some of which trace their ancestry to Adam.
Mohamed: "We have nothing at all, but we do what we can."
Huh.
In George W. Bush's AmeriKa, he has lots and gives nothing!
While other parts of Africa, notably Sudan's western region of Darfur, have comparable levels of child malnutrition, there are few places where the gap between need and response is so great. The shortfall has been attributed to Somalia's lack of security, its often uncooperative government, and the current focus of so many aid groups on the crisis in Sudan.
More than 200,000 of the people who have fled Mogadishu are living along a single road leading out of the city, a 10-mile stretch thought to be the largest single gathering of displaced people in the world. The rest have fanned out to points north, west, and south, arriving by truck, by donkey, and on foot in towns such as this one about 50 miles from Mogadishu.
Here in the lower Shabeelle River region, long known as the country's breadbasket, vast fields of maize, sorghum, and beans are shriveling for lack of rain, and food prices are skyrocketing.
Even without the newcomers arriving daily, the situation has been so tenuous that the United Nations dispatched two ships this month with food intended to shore up the local population.
Mohamed said she had one loaf of bread and a few tomatoes for her own family when Ali arrived last month. She divvied it up.
She had a bit of room in her house, and Ali and her children are still sleeping there. She had an extra dress and a piece of pink cloth, which she gave to Ali.
Ali, who was wearing the dress:
"Without her, the problem would have been very bad. We're grateful she has a good heart."
Wish I could say the same about the self-centered, selfish Amurkns I see every fucking day!
Others arriving here have found refuge with local Somali groups such as one run by Mana Abdurahman, who has taken in more than 200 orphaned children this year, as well as families from Somalia's more marginal clans."
How come poor black people own the moral high ground over slobshit Amurkns, readers?
AmeriKa, YOU SUCK!
YOU CREATED THIS SITUATION, for God's sake!
