Stories about Somalia from November, 2007
Somalia: Somali culture
Learn something about the Somali culture from Shafi: “Receiving a guest with such generosity is often praise worthy and the theme of many verses of poetry. In the Somali culture, where families are judged by their hospitality, Sooryo (receiving guests well) is very important and so is Sagootin (seeing them...
Somalia: Somalia Journal: Riot
David Axe is currently visiting Somalia and blogs about his experience: “The first time we went to the tiny movie house near the Mogadishu seaport, with a mind to doing some interviews, the manager fussed at us for not making an appointment. It was tense, but not alarming. We promised...
Somalia: Massacre in the streets of Mogadishu
Banaadir posts a video showing the cost to human life in the Somali conflict and quotes Bob Marley's Redemption Song: “”How long shall they kill our prophets, While we stand aside and look? ooh!” Bob Marley
Somalia: Elders getting involved with security
Steve discusses latest issues in Somalia: By request from local clan elders, Mohamed Deere, the warlord-turned-nominal mayor of Mogadishu, Somalia, has called off disarmament operations in the nominal capital, and consequently the elders “are now involved in the security of the city.”
