Renewed tragedy in Somalia

[bixaorellana]

Poor Somalia, which has suffered not only its own internecine conflicts for nearly three decades, but is also being hit by airstrikes from the US.

www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/world/africa/somalia-bombing-mogadishu.html

[lagatta]

That is so depressing that I almost didn't look at it. Not because I don't care about people in Somalia; on the contrary; I know Somalian people - you probably know about Italy's latecomer colonialism in that part of the world and Mussolini's "victories" over scarcely-armed forces in East Africa. But I don't know what on earth "we" can do about it except pressure Western powers to stop adding airstrikes to all the other horrors going on there.

[kerouac2]

With all of the new Somali tea rooms in my neighbourhood, which seem to be packed, I can only imagine the conversations they are having, and what happened is probably being used as total validation for the reason they fled their homeland.

[tod2]

How happy they must feel to be able to live and prepare their traditional food in complete peace. I'm sure most have left family behind which must be heart wrenching.