Famine In Somalia

Author : Daniel G. Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849045759
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famine in Somalia written by Daniel G. Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 250,000 people died in the southern Somalia famine of 2011-12, which also displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands more. Yet this crisis had been predicted nearly a year earlier. The harshest drought in Somalia's recent history coincided with a global spike in food prices, hitting this arid, import-dependent country hard. The policies of Al-Shabaab, a militant Islamist group that controlled southern Somalia, exacerbated an already difficult situation, barring most humanitarian assistance, while donors counter-terrorism policies led to cuts and criminalized any aid falling into their hands. A major disaster resulted from the production and market failures precipitated by the drought and food price crisis, while the famine itself was the result of the failure to quickly respond to these events-and was thus largely human-made. This book analyses the famine: the trade-offs between competing policy priorities that led to it, the collective failure in response, and how those affected by it attempted to protect themselves and their livelihoods.It also examines the humanitarian response, including actors that had not previously been particularly visible in Somalia-from Turkey, the Middle East, and Islamic charities worldwide.

Author : Judith Gardner
Publisher : CIIR
ISBN 13 : 9780745322087
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Somalia - The Untold Story written by Judith Gardner and published by CIIR. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the experiences of women in Somalia and how they have survived the trauma of war.

Author : Alexander De Waal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253211583
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famine Crimes written by Alexander De Waal and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is responsible for the failures? African generals and politicians are the prime culprits for creating famines in Sudan, Somalia and Zaire, but western donors abet their authoritarianism, partly through imposing structural adjustment programmes.

Author : Alex de Waal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509524703
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mass Starvation written by Alex de Waal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground in examining forced starvation as an instrument of genocide and war. Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that attributes famine to overpopulation and natural disaster, he shows how political decision or political failing is an essential element in every famine, while the spread of democracy and human rights, and the ending of wars, were major factors in the near-ending of this devastating phenomenon. Hard-hitting and deeply informed, Mass Starvation explains why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community.

Author : Laurence Binet
Publisher : Médecins Sans Frontières
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Somalia 1991-1993: Civil War, Famine Alert and a UN "Military-Humanitarian" Intervention written by Laurence Binet and published by Médecins Sans Frontières. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Winship Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States Army in Somalia, 1992-1994 written by Richard Winship Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mohamed Sahnoun
Publisher : United States Institute of Peace Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Somalia written by Mohamed Sahnoun and published by United States Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1992, starvation, disease, and death had engulfed Somalia and its people. Plagued by the violence of civil war, Somalia had become a country with few resources and great despair electricity, communications, transportation, health services, and food were all in short supply.As disaster befell the country, the international community proved unwilling or unable to provide the humanitarian and peacekeeping assistance that was desperately needed. The result, contends Mohamed Sahnoun, UN special representative to Somalia in 1992, was the continued spread of a tragedy that had already reached unthinkable proportions.In this compelling volume, Sahnoun describes his first-hand experience in Somalia and argues that if the international community and specifically the United Nations had intervened earlier and more effectively, much of the catastrophe that unfolded could have been avoided.In part a vivid personal memoir and in part a case study of multilateral intervention, the book provides concrete examples of how the failure of international intervention in different phases of the crisis in Somalia led to further deterioration. The author also assesses the reasons for the absence of adequate and timely action and examines how the United Nations can better fulfill its expanded role in promoting stability and providing humanitarian relief in the future."

Author : Edward Raphael Ricciuti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Somalia a Crisis of Famine and War written by Edward Raphael Ricciuti and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John L. Hirsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Somalia and Operation Restore Hope written by John L. Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Somalia" has become a symbol for the unacceptable costs of humanitarian intervention, for the type of foreign involvement that should be avoided. But the authors of this timely book, themselves key participants in the U.S.-led operation there, argue that substantial good was done--the tide of famine was stayed, hundreds of thousands of lives saved, and steps toward political reconciliation begun. Despite the recent renewal of political violence, the humanitarian situation remains stable. In launching Operation Restore Hope, the multinational coalition faced a complex, tense, and rapidly unfolding situation. The authors detail how the carefully limited mission achieved its goals, including mutual understanding with the Somalis, by combining political, military, and humanitarian actions. But the authors also describe how different U.S. and UN concepts of the mission and subsequent changes in the mission's scope led almost inevitably to confrontation. Hirsch and Oakley raise fundamental questions about how to conduct such operations, and in particular about the limitations of peacekeepers in nation building. Drawing lessons from Vietnam and Lebanon as well as more recent operations, the authors provide an analysis that will help policymakers and scholars as they debate the future of peacekeeping.

Author : Ahmed Ismail Yusuf
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873518748
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Somalis in Minnesota written by Ahmed Ismail Yusuf and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2012 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Somalis in Minnesota begins with three words: sahan, war, and martisoor. Driven from their homeland by civil war and famine, one group of Somali sahan, pioneers, discovered well-paying jobs in the city of Marshall, Minnesota. Soon the war, news, traveled that not only was employment available but the people in this northern state, so different in climate from their African homeland, were generous in martisoor, hospitality, just like the Somali people themselves. The diaspora began in 1992, and today more than fifty thousand Somalis live in Minnesota, the most of any state. Many have made their lives in small towns and rural areas, and many more have settled in Minneapolis, earning this city the nickname "Little Somalia" or "Little Mogadishu." Amiable guide Ahmed Yusuf introduces readers to these varied communities, exploring economic and political life, religious and cultural practices, and successes in education and health care. he also tackles the controversial topics that command newspaper headlines: alleged links to terrorist organizations and the recruitment of young Somali men to fight in the civil war back home. This newest addition to the people of Minnesota series captures the story of the state's most recent immigrant group at a pivotal time in its history.