Bernice's Blog on International development assistance Somalia, is a country currently described and categorized as the world's most dangerous city, as reported 0n MOXNEWS.COM
This is the report on Somalia's current status report as of May 25, 2010 by MSNBC Rachel Maddow
As mentioned in the video itself, Somalia is currently a country that has no running government for 19 years and counting. It is considered as a failed state with the locals living there being terrorized everyday by the constant wars and battles between generals, warlords, other warrior types and even their seas are terrorized by piracy.
Currently, the status report on Somalia has shown that ever since the overthrowing of their president back in 1991, Somalia has not been able to deal with the famine and diseases, which have led to the deaths of up to one million people. Basically in Somalia, for 3 years and counting, the Shabab, which is one of Africa's most fearsome militant Islamic Groups, have been terrorizing the people of Somalia. The Shabab, if they were to have an accusation over a certain person of theft, they would simply chop the limbs of the person despite proper evidence of the accused theft. Not only that, for women, if they were seen to be dressed inappropriately by the Shabab, the Shabab would just lash at them.
As there is no proper rule in Somalia, it has become a state of free will whereby you are your own boss and you have the freedom to do anything that you wish to do. For us, we may think that it would be a great way of living, to be free of the law, but take a look at Somalia, would you wish to live in a country whereby you have to worry for your life, even under your own roof of your house.
In Somalia, the Shabab situation is so bad that even teenagers below the age of 16 are being part of the action. It seemed that the Shabab is actually highly influenced by the Strict Wahhabi version of Islam, a group better known as Al-Qaeda.
To be in a country without law and order, it is especially unsettling as for the people living there, they would have no one to turn to in times of need. They have no reliable government to turn to, no diplomatic representation and no aid available; right not, there is an estimate of only 250 doctors left in the whole of Somalia. What's more shocking is that, 20% of the Somalian children are malnourished, and 25% of families in Somalia has fled from their homes to living outside of Somalia due to their unstable economy.
The most distressing issue for International Aid group is to supplying and delivering aid to those in Somalia. Through videos that i will share later in this post, you will find that for refugees over in Somalia, there are indeed organizations coming down to wanting to deliver their necessities which includes basic health care, water and food; but the process of delivering the aid has always been interrupted by either the Islamic group, Shabab or even pirates from the seas.
The main problem that prevents aid to Millions suffering in Somalia is that the Food Aid from World Food Program (WFP) were reported diverted to a web of corrupt contractors, distributors, transporters and armed groups. Food aid were diverted to them for their own profits.
With such a huge problem in Somalia, it is very important for the International Aid Groups to really overcome this challenge that will resurface every time they try to deliver the aid over.
To solve the problem of such issues reoccuring, i suggest that the UN should take steps into setting up reliable army there in Somalia itself and it is compulsory to start by having law and order in Somalia.
Once there is a stable government in Somalia, the government can come in power to eliminate the problems of the Shabab terrorizing the whole city and when that happens, it would led to the city of Shabab being stable.
After the stabilisation of the country itself, the system and process of delivering aid to the country would be more fluent and thus, more people would be able to be able receive the aid provided by the international aid groups. It is necessary t first solve the base problem then proceeding to look into more matters that might disrupt the system.
Indeed, Somalia would be a great challenge to overcome, but i believe with the proper steps taken to address the issues, the challenge would become a thing of the past.
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