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In Somalia, a failure in 1992 has led to a famine today

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Nuruddin Farah - Aug. 03 (Opinion) - After the United States left Somalia, the rest of the world stood by, leaving the warlords to profit from their criminality. Al-Qaeda strengthened its presence in the country. Foreign vessels entered Somali waters and engaged in illegal fishing, which caused piracy to balloon into an ugly reality. Somalia lived on mortgaged time, leased out to criminals of one sort or another, an ideal world for terrorists to flourish.

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They Fled from Our War

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The New York Review of Books - By Alisa Roth, Hugh Eakin - Apr. 27 (Review) - what was once a middle-class society without democracy may for some time to come be a democracy without a middle class

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Australia 'whitewashing' security situations

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Age - By Andra Jackson - Apr. 13 (Opinion) - People are still fleeing Afghanistan because minorities are being abused and they have nowhere else to go, according to the CEO of refugee support group, Refugee Survivors and Ex-Detainees.

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Suffering

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New Yorker - By George Packer - Jan. 18 (Comment) - The night after the earthquake, Haitians who had lost their homes, or who feared that their houses might collapse, slept outdoors, in the streets and parks of Port-au-Prince. In Place Saint-Pierre, across the street from the Kinam Hotel, in the suburb of Pétionville, hundreds of people lay under the sky, and many of them sang hymns: “God, you are the one who gave me life. Why are we suffering?”

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Pakistan’s Human Debacle

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Morton Abramowitz - Aug. 06 (Opinion) - The Pakistan military’s offensive against the Taliban in the Swat Valley has been hailed as a success despite the exodus of some two million men, women and children. Information is sparse because the area is still closed to the outside world, but

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