The Most Dangerous Place in the World
Somalia is a state governed only by anarchy. A graveyard of foreign-policy failures, it has known just six months of peace in the past two decades. Now, as the country’s endless chaos threatens to engulf an entire region, the world again simply watches it burn.
Beyond the airport is one of the world’s most stunning monuments to conflict: block after block, mile after mile, of scorched, gutted-out buildings. Mogadishu’s Italianate architecture, once a gem along the Indian Ocean, has been reduced to a pile of machine-gun-chewed bricks. Somalia has been ripped apart by violence since the central government imploded in 1991. Eighteen years and 14 failed attempts at a government later, the killing goes on and on ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
This is a picture of anarchy, exacerbated by world powers, pursuing their own advantages, flooding Somalia with free weapons and futile attempts at outside governance. Not mentioned is the "civilized" nations' dumping of hazardous waste, some nuclear, off their undefended coast.