🇸🇴 Horn of Africa Crisis: Somalia's Famine | Fault Lines
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- The worst drought in 60 years has thrown some 13 million people across the Horn of Africa into crisis.
In Somalia, ravaged by two decades of conflict, the consequences have been disastrous. For over six months, aid agencies on the ground sounded the alarm that a major drought and famine was on the horizon.
Then in July and August, the world watched and international aid agencies scrambled as tens of thousands of Somalis fled famine and fighting in the devastated Southern part of the country, controlled by the armed group al-Shabab. And they continued to flee - to the Somali capital of Mogadishu, and refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia - in the following months, when the world seemed to lose interest.
Tens of thousands of Somalis have died and the UN has warned that three quarters of a million more are at risk of dying before the end of the year.
Somalia's weak Transitional Federal Government, the Obama administration, and the United Nations have all blamed the anti-government group al-Shabab for restricting international aid operations in the areas they control. But is al-Shabab the only reason a drought and food crisis has turned into a deadly famine?
In the first of a two-part series examining the US response to drought and hunger in the Horn of Africa, Fault Lines travels to Mogadishu to meet refugees who have fled to the most war-ravaged city in the world to escape a worse fate, and the aid and medical workers struggling to help them. We examine the legacy of US engagement in Somalia and its efforts to address the current crisis.
Has aid in this region of the world become politicised? And has Washington's pre-occupation with terrorism in the Horn of Africa contributed to the deadly consequences of this disaster?
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Hello from the Fault Lines team - let's keep the comments here pertinent to what is shown in the episode itself. Let's refrain from offensive and off-topic remarks as well as personal attacks.
Somalia will one day soon find its footing and will demonstrate to the whole world that they are very very enterprising people. Viva la Africa!
it really feels so sad, i suggest they MUST control birth rate...to decrease this miserable life.
i spoken to africans about that and they cuz you out!!!
Wtf Somalia has a low population compared to their land mass
@@ykmvp1870 again their land is dry... It alone cannot support its mass on sustainable basis
Thabang Alejandro no it isn’t we have 2 rivers in our country that can make irrigation and we can feed our country 5 times over if people farmed so the land is not dry especially in the south
@@ykmvp1870 Now stop wasting time do it
Some people here are just terrible. I can't believe this. I am of Somali decent, I was born in Canada. My parents where born and raised in Somalia then they came to Canada as adults. I went to Somalia for two months this Summer break, and I saw how people in Africa lived, and how the monetary divide really effects people. No human deserves this kind of suffering, maybe it's because I sometimes feel like if my parents never came to Canada I would be there with them. More people should see that.
May the rains of Mercy befall upon drought stricken Somalia.. and may it's thunderous lightnings strike the very heart of the evil perpetrators of peace, justice, truth and freedom of humanity.. Ameen!
Surely some help is on the way from rich Gulf Arab nations, right??
Phil Nolan lol
Phil Nolan If you knew anything about us you would know that we hate them so much they are traitors too us
@@itzfusionplex4266 how?
spot on!! This also happens in my country Mexico. Lots of people don't care at all about the future of their children, also religion has a lot of the blame.
Any religion followers watching this human calamity ?,if so tell your god to help perform a miracle and help this people.if that doesnt happen guess why?
God is aware of all these things also God does only what he wills
Having eight children potentially reduces the amount of food for the children eightfold.
But yes I agree, information, family planning is key, and will lead to development by the free market in the promise of growth.
But no one seems to give a damn.
Agreed
I can't believe the heartlessness of some of these comments! It is only by the grace of God that you weren't born into that situation! Instead of criticizing others, be thankful for your lot in life and do what you can to help other people!
Why don't the journalists do anything? Because the best they can do is bring attention to the situation by taking pictures, conducting interviews and shooting video of the famine. Change is slow and not everyone can be bothered to care, we have our own lives to worry about.
I pray things are better 12 years later ❤❤❤
This famine could go away if mothers did not have so many children; the belief is in Somalia, is that the children take care of their parents in later years. One or two children would be better as they would not starve as much as the will not have to compete. I do feel for these people but why bring more children in to the world when famine is around. Surely not having so many children would mean that fewer would lose their lives as they would not be competing with brothers and sisters for food.
My parents told me if I get an F in any of my classes I wouldn't eat dinner. I just got my grades back. Guess who's not eating tonight? That's right: the children in Africa.
LET ALLAH PROVIDE
they ask why is noone helping us? the answer is simple cause you wont help yourselves
Jake Clark , how can they control the drought?
@IMAWESOME1260 you’re pretty much a dumbass because how can they help themselves in a refugee camp where people are always dying and there’s no resources? Get out of your little fantasy white world and wake up
Oh my god😭😭😭😭😭😢😢😢
no rain,nothing left to steal,neighbors hate them,whats the world to do with Somalia?
If there is anything i have learned in the 46 years my feet touch this earth,it is that cursing don't bring you any prosperity,only laughter and ridicule.
No matter if others are rude ,the best way to get enlightened is to love those who are the hardest to love.
Who says poverty has to be depressing
i 💝💝💝💝💝 somalia
Max K not everybody from somalia is weird and violent, no its not shitty there was war and now its calm by the way somalis are friendly if you get to know them. im french citizen i visit somalia every year.dont brush a whole country with one broom
black people are the best race
islam is the best religion
somalis are black muslims!!!
So much for "refrain from offensive and off-topic remarks as well as personal attacks"
ikr these comments did not pass the vibe check
We have hungry and jobless people in the US so why not take care of our own problem first and then help the rest of the world after...
I will tell you this: actually having been to Somalia I know there are a lot of people there born intelligent (just like here), they just never get the chance to grow because so little people go to school (because it costs money). I'm certain if I grew up where my parents did (in Hargeysa) today I'd be a very different person. I would have never made it past elementary, and seeing how dangerous the place is I probably would've died young. I could have been one of the victims of this famine.
Nice hood !!!
@micahgee i guss your right thay will all die no reason to try to live.there is 4million people thay can save there selves.but some people will let other people worry about them instead of helping themselves.4million people can build somthing from nothing.
I think it partially comes down to who can get what types of food out of the land or who develops to what level or has what resources and more. People matter of course.
Guns, Germs, and Steel looks at this.
I think most of Europe allowed them to have enough food so that they could advance in many other ways also, and then spreading across the United States which is good land making it become the largest economy in the world.
Things are shifting though, a country can totally boom in 30 years.
Starving millions are not important to those playing Who's Boss with their truckloads of armed soldier zombies.
According to the Worldwatch Institute if developing countries were to consume as much resources per capita as United States or Japan in 2030 together they would require more than a full planet Earth to meet their needs.
Conclusion: we need to keep them poor and screwed. They will try to develop, and this should be PREVENTED.
Just realize, to someone else he himself is worthless. And they will be holding his food and water back from him in a time to come.
I personally like World Vision Ministries because they support the entire family.
God bless!
I wonder if these people realise that having all these children are part of the problem, having five in the hope one will live is mad. Having one child and looking after that child is the best way forward. It would also be good if condoms were given out as it is the children that are dying the most
This famine still would have occurred with a lower pop as the conditions are cyclical, always have been in this part of the world. Blaming this on overpopulation would make sense if they'd reached the limit on crop yield the land could provide, but this is not the case, the solution is to store grain for the dry spells.
Agreed! And, climate change plus desertification are making a bad situation worse. The simple "have fewer children" doesn´t get at the root causes.
If there was less people, it would be far easier to buy food for them from abroad.
There is very little humanity in this comment section. Smh
Can't USA and UN removeThe so-called All Shabab
For good
Instead of interfering everywhere else
And bombing innocent people i.e. Afghanistan 🇦🇫
Interfering in Pakistan politics
Killing by ddrones killing so innocent people
For Peace they can’t because then al Shabbab will go on a rampage and go for other countries like Kenya and such
I hear you, I was being a little snarky.
Biology, anthropology, and more.
Part of me wonders if Africa is the way it is because of the land itself. Seriously think that over.
Obviously each country is different.
why dont they stop having children
the only way to survive, to mess with the NWO agenda of world depopulation
i know what does not work, living in a desart and having 7.2 children per female.
Смотрю и думаю ,женщины в большинстве своем высокие ,длинноногие ,как так может быть при таком питании с детства ,как тут нам показывают
this is just sad
@7Poeticsoul So true. Some people are just extremely closed minded, and it really does get annoying.
I don't think we understand it better. It is just that we are tought better!
If these people were not starving, you would not have their cheap natural resources, it would be much more expensive. Africa has 30% of the worlds cobalt resources, 40% of the world's phosphat, 60% of the world's diamonds, 8% of the world proved gas reserves and 10% of the world’s proved oil reserves (BP Statistical Review of World Energy). We need to actively promote massive depopulation in Africa. I'm grateful that they are suffering and dying.
Lets do something to save them.
Overpopulation is the problem here, why can NO ONE fathom that?!
80 million Somalians with an average of EIGHT children per family. In one generation that would be more people thaN in GERMANY, UK, GREECE, ITALY, ETC.
And that desert is supposed to support them??
People need to THINK for once. The size of the population has to reflect availbale resources ffs.
There has to be some birth control taught to these people. Making more babies so you can’t feed them until they die is not responsible either.
I think the USA should stay out of problems that are not ours
Laurel Anderson
Lorelei Lets Live Together y’all have bigger problems coming your way tho
You have no heart
@jcb570
There is no arable land on which to grow food on raise cattle!!!!
How are these people just going to "help themselves"?!?
@hogo1 You cannot say things like that, many poor people are around the world in every nation rich or poor, & children are been born they are the future generations. Amazing grace thank u Lord to save a wrenched like me I once was lost but now I am found.
Joe Rogan said it best, "Over here, Over there same thing, same people." Just different people with different skin color with a different religion/way of life, why ppl got to hate is beyond me.
"They just take pictures then leave, nothing else..." We need to be digging some wells for these people their government obviously does not want to. Genocide is a nasty business but we can hinder it as much as possible.
I really hope most of the people commenting on this are just trolling. The children in Somalia are no different from the children in America. Just stop with the hateful language, no one's laughing.
@conduit99 Aljazeera is not the same news gathering organisation after the change in leadership several years ago...
@snowstorm80 When ur hungry is their anything be happy about, people who are stress are depress.
Not cool to make fun of starving people.
This is touching
You can call a $15trillions stricken debts.. enslavement or freedom of choice.. you can call a special interest.. hypocrisy or democracy that's your choices.. you can buy over loyalty or ignorance that's your preference.. but you can never buy over Islam and the will of the people.. not another 1400yrs you can't.. God Willing.. Ameen!
Stay out of it US/UN this is all your fault, and where are the US and UN in all of this, and how could they allow this to happen.
"What you just said is completely wrong"
Based on what?
"We just need to stop buying stupid stuff we don't need."
No, I prefer to continue consuming much more than I need at the expense of others.
This was even worse than the 1992 Famine.
@rorylol You've obviously been distracted. Many of Africa's long-running civil wars have (more or less) ended: Sudan, Congo, Angola and examples of the old Africa (destitute, violent and isolated) are becoming rare. The last decade has seen three times as many democratic elections as in the previous 10 years, and Africa the only continent in the world where there is real economic growth right now: 5% across the board. 150 million African are electronics consumers... The list goes on.
Looks like the should be dumping birth control in the grain! Either that or snip all them in exchange for the food. Why do they keep dumping out kids if they can't even feed themselves? They could always eat the flies walking on the kids giant eyeballs, there's plenty of them!
Sure, but drought and other problems wreck havoc also.
Why do these women have so many children? They can't even feed them.
Meanwhile, in America...
thay dont have to sit and wate for a handout there is to maney in just that first camp not to help themselves.just look at the workforce just siting there wating for what?(death)
@drunkengringo
Regarding my last comment, I was commenting on the solipsistic nature we Americans tend to have, and how good we have it compared to most of the world. My message was tended towards Americans (since they populate most of youtube) but I am sorry, for I forgot how diverse the commenting section can be in certain videos.
appalachia is so poor. it is so sad. fix america first . then muddle in others affairs.
Is this still happening now in Mogadishu ?
Somali's are taking this fasting thing too seriously if you ask me.
just looking at thems making me hungry lol
Part 2
Notice how Chinas economy has gone from 400 billion to over 7 trillion in 20 years.
I always felt like China has had tons of people and resources and land but hasn't quite had it all together, until now maybe.
Africa has no lack of people or land or resources.
South Africa has had its economy grow by 50x in about 50 years.
It's interesting.
also if gas gets to expensive we could have the government pay part of the price like farmers in the 1st world.
"peak oil" doesnt really exist
You cannot deliver justice through murder
oh and my bad--- we don't populate most of youtube....
3.5 x the amount of viewers of this video have died of famine in the mean while
only sad!!! greece
@DonSlipDubO55 how is the USA in the lead?
Such a painful wordings ......" They came and take pictures,do Nothing "..Still u should be thankful that u r not in afghanistan and Iraq..Atleast u r safe from NATO air rads on innocent People on the name of war on terror....
@U01623AA Why not test these weapons within america, arizona which is also a dessert like in Africa a great place to test nuclear weapons & posion gas.
I Aint Sayin Its Wrong But They Should Slow Down On Havin All Them Damn Kids
Interesting. The Shish-Kebab Islamist Spokesman looked well fed. I'd say he is rather plump. Hefty helpings of ham and eggs for breakfast, eh?
peak oil is just talking about "cheap oil" which technology might might the expensive oil cheap.
solar panels, wind, hydro, and geothermal might also work someday
Build More Air Craft Carriers.....The financial system needs to go.The earth supplies an abundance and we re caught up on "Profit"
@ritchloui So the native Americans should rise 1500 years later and disloge Europeans from the Americans? Should the Nubians disloge current day Egyptians? If you bring an issue 1400 years ago, what stops the world from brining all kind of historical shit to start wars? Listen to yourself.
Freedom for Humanity. Freedom only for Humanity. There is no god!
2016: Mogadishu has been surpassed by Aleppo.
@malikazhar100 most of the dead are Iraqi on Iraqi dead....they are still killing each other....I spent 16 months in country. Also you have no clue whats going on in Afganistan unless you get a high level briefing or are currently in country. I have buddies thier now....
this should get more views than psy...
@AlJazeeraEnglish
Good luck with that. Unfortunately, there is a good chance that you'll find more racists than people who legitimately care. That is a sad thing. :(
الولد.ماتت.امه..وبقي..يمسك.شيبها.وبيكي.عل.ان.تنهض.وتحضنه.ولاكن.ماتت.والكمرة.تعمل.عل.تصوير.ذالك.في.الفديو.الذي.سبق.. ........بءس.ماتصنعون.
Allah loves all the people,especially those people who basically are the victims of centuries of kolonial occupation.
Try again.
@whiteboygotswagg Using the F word won't emphasize your point, so it's not necessary. And there's no need to get so offended. I wasn't even speaking directly towards you.
@lproth U got buddies but em living in the neighboring country of Afghanistan..We had 7 million afghan refugees in our country So em well aware of whats going on in Afghanistan...By eating burgers and drinking kavod u can not understand whats happening over there...will suggest u to take a trip...
Solving global famine?
Let them eat FLIES.........
You did not pass the vibe check
@MrWutangkilla1 I'm not proud of myself but I agree with youi
AFRICA IS A LOST CAUSE
Lol. You are so ignorant, I am lost for words.
truth hurt does it
Lol kid. You are too insignificant to hurt my feelings. I find it so ridiculous and ignorant that you would say that a whole continent is a lost cause as if the millions living in poverty don't matter. Don't act like the U.S has always been prosperous. Every nation/continent has its ups and down. What if they had given up on the US? You think we should give up on Africa? Africa is not a lost cause because we have not made every effort to help those over there. They need leaders that are educated and have a vision. All the leaders in the past have been corrupt, selfish, and violent. We don't need people or organizations to send money/food. Africa needs leadership and education. And btw, try and use more than 5 words to make a point instead of just saying the first thing that comes to mind.
Balaayo siyaasi yeenta negu dhacdo maxaa wadankii ka geysateen
LOL I agree....
I have good intentions.
@Gorillaland Religion has something to do with it, I will grant that much but the main problem is cultural.
I am fairly sure that this will not befall the western world seeing as our culture is much different.
Large parts of the continent of Africa has been subject to all kinds of maladies since as far back as I can remember, it hasn't spread, nor has it gotten any better.
President Obama I want two C-5 Planes loaded with Aid, to Somalia, I want the USNS Mercy deployed to Somalia, I want Army Corp of Engineers to go and construct food banks, shelters and clinics now
+Avishai David best just to nuke it