Este é o link do post que escrevi - tentei escrever, diga-se de passagem – em inglês no meu outro blog. Falei sobre a seca e fome no Chifre da África e a situação calamitosa da Somália. Recomendo a leitura! =D
Thousands of million of dollars used to buy weapons, kill the enemy – whoever he is – and get the power – wherever it is too. Now and again, the world watches another proof of abandon, after years – even decades – of richness from land in Africa`s countries. Again, the scene of that sad, sick and poor Africa. Habitants needing the essential to live: food and medical service. The world comes back to the stage to be shocked to understand how urgently they need help.
Food rising prices, climate change and political instability have, as a result, refugees desperate for aid, with diseases and dying people. In recently weeks, Horn of Africa has been living with food problems, what has caused million of people displaced to other countries to receive health care and food. The climate change caused drought in countries in Horn of Africa: Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. Somalia is the country that has been suffering the most. Farms don’t have grains for food, what rises the dependency from aid agencies.
But, even with the will to assist Somalians, the nation suffers with the lack of function of central government for years. Part of the country – South and Central Somalia – is controlled by al-Shabab, named as the Somali Al Qaeda linked insurgent movement, because they call the situation as a battle between the West and Islam.
Citizens have been displaces, initially to transit camps, close to border with Ethiopia, to try to get any aid before living their home country. In Ethiopia, thousands of refugees try to live with their families in other camps, wherer there’s no food anymore with a rising number of refugees arriving. Mothers need to garantee at least one meal per day for them and their children. Unfortunately, some of them loses their children to starvation.
Aid agencies can’t give assistance in all areas of Somalia and not even hav an idea about the number of people that are still waiting in the country during political conflicts. Meanwhile, medication, food and water are most needed items. Recently, the UN chief Ban Ki-moon plead for member estates with money to stop this humanitarian disaster. However, only half of the amount of 1.6 billion dollars needed has been obtained.
This current scene explains the abandon of the African continent from developed countries. While the West spends in war, wastes food and water, for years, those countries from Horn of Africa must live in this extreme situation to receive more atention. Now, UN has two important responsabilities: act fast attending the urgency with necessary assistance and, later, help those countries to “reborn”, specially Somalia, to avoid future disasters like this one.
