There’s an article in today’s New York Times about how the current situation is probably worse than the current situation in Darfur. 
United Nations officials said the recent round of plagues, natural and man-made, coupled with the residual chaos that has consumed Somalia for more than a decade, have put the country on the brink of famine. In the worst-hit areas, like Afgooye, recent surveys indicate the malnutrition rate is 19 percent, compared with about 13 percent in Darfur; 15 percent is considered the emergency threshold.
The officials, in making the comparison, were not trying to diminish the problems in Darfur, where more than 200,000 people have died from violence and disease since 2003. But they said they were concerned that the crisis here was increasingly urgent.
Unlike Darfur, where the suffering is being eased by a billion-dollar aid operation and more than 10,000 aid workers, Somalia is still considered mostly a no-go zone. Just last week, a Somali aid worker and a guard were shot to death at an aid distribution center in Afgooye. United Nations officials estimate that total emergency aid is under $200 million, partly because it is so difficult just getting food into the country.
Almost all the cab drivers in Nashville are Somalian, so I’ve learned a lot about Somalia in the past year or so, and though my friends in yellow cars swear it’s a wonderful country, it sounds pretty shitty right about now. Of course it’s incredibly important to keep lobbying for more aid and intervention in Darfur, but it looks like there’s just as much work to be done in Somalia. To help out, consider donating to the International Medical Corp’s Somalian effort, or you can contact the American Jewish World Service, who have a huge Save Darfur campaign, and ask them to give some attention and resources to Somalia, too. And it never hurts to contact your Senator and let him or her know what’s bugging you about foreign policy. Maybe it’s just because of my Somalian friends, but I feel like it’s time to make some noise for 19 percent of Somalians who are too weak to do much of anything.
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