By JOE PENNEY Bulatlat.com Last week I wrote an article describing how food aid has wrought havoc on Somalia’s economy for nearly four decades, and why policies of neoliberal humanitarian agencies and the corrupt semblance of a Somali government they work with have left millions of people in starvation. This week I’ll give a brief…
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Drought and famine in Somalia: Lessons for recipients of Western ‘humanitarian’ aid
By JOE PENNEY Bulatlat.com Turn on CNN, BBC or any other major Western media outlet and, aside from news about the Norway killer (not labeled as a terrorist because he’s not Muslim), the UK phone hacking scandal and the U.S. debt crisis, few international stories make the headlines. From Africa, a continent of 53 countries,…
Roots of Somali Piracy
The problem of piracy in Somalia traces its roots to economic and environmental depredations that have taken a toll on the lives of the Somali people, especially the fisherfolk. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Correspondent Bulatlat The international community has raised the alarm over the spate of ship abductions by Somali pirates in the Gulf of…