Word: mogadishu
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This week an emergency airlift is to begin delivering food throughout the country, and a technical team will arrive in Mogadishu to assess the needs for a return to peace; 50 cease-fire observers from 10 nations are already in the capital. But the U.N. will not begin distribution of food and aid without the security provided by a 500-man Pakistani battalion, on standby since April. So far General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, one of two rivals destroying the country they would govern, has balked at accepting armed blue helmets...
...plan to divide Somalia into four sectors aims to wrest control of the country from brigands in lawless Mogadishu, where last week a ship loaded with 8,000 tons of food was forced to pay a daily "security fee" of $4,000 until off-loading costs were negotiated. An additional 7,000 tons of food is held hostage in warehouses. But the airlift is only a stopgap. The cure is an end to bloodshed and the beginning of reconciliation...
Duale Noor Sabrie was sitting in his house in Mogadishu when the shell hit. Three of his brothers and his oldest son were killed. "The place was burning. My wife went in one direction; I went in another. It took us one month to find each other," he recalls. The family migrated by foot and boat to a refugee camp on the Kenyan coast. Sabrie had been a successful businessman with cars and servants and thousands of dollars of cash in the bank. Now, he says, "I am 56 years old. I cannot go home again or start over. Nothing...
...those who remain in Mogadishu, living has become a slow death. Crowded into the few buildings still standing, women and children forage for food and water. A bag of looted U.S. flour is $30, a container of skim milk donated by the European Community is $20, and hardly anyone has money for either. The distended bellies and red-streaked hair of the children signal the malnutrition that is endemic...
...Somalia is a mosaic of clans and subclans. The men who captured Mogadishu in January 1991 and put President Mohammed Siad Barre to flight belong to the Hawiye clan. The northern quarter of the capital is held by the , Abagal subclan of interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed. The Habar Gedir subclan of General Mohammed Farrah Aidid dominates the southern three-fourths. At the beginning of last year, hatred of Siad Barre united the groups, but that unity is long gone. Another clan has declared an independent Somaliland in the north; yet another controls the land south and west of Mogadishu...