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Eric Nixon Doo Ryul David

Unknown Term
refugee: a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war

humanitarian: concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare

drought: a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water resulting from this.

famine: extreme scarcity of food

mortality: the state of being subject to death militia: a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency. insurgent: rising in active revolt

casualty: a person killed or injured in a war or accident

human rights: a right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person

persecution: subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, esp. because of their race or political or religious beliefs

List of Facts
Eric: Threats of Somalia There are many problems in Somalia, including Al Shabab, famine, sanitation, etc. The main issue in Somalia is the fact that Al Shabab is stealing the nourishments from the Somalians, causing the USA’s aid to be redirected. Al Shabab is just another warlord, however, it has grown incredibly strong throughout the years, causing it to be the most feared warlord trying to take over Somalia. Famine has caused so many young children to die that the UN can’t even say how many. Because of the overwhelming number of people in the refugee camps, the WFP can’t send the full amount of food that the people need, and because of Al Shabab who has been trying to prevent this food to come in, food is becoming more desperate to the children in those remote refugee camps.

Population : 7,488,773-9,656,500(July 2001 est.) Life Expectancy : 46.6 years Ethnic Groups : Somali (85%), Bantu, Arabs Religion : Sunni Muslim Literacy : 24% (total population) Exports : Livestock, Bananas, and Fish Currency : [|Somali Shilling] (SOS) External Debt: US$2.6 billion Internally Displaced Persons: 350,000 Refugees: 451,600 Children 5-14 Years of Age Currently Working: 41.9% So far in 2009 on piracy: 147 incidents, compared with 63 in the same period in 2008 32 vessels successfully hijacked  533 crew taken hostage  85 vessels fired upon  - Somalia has been without a functioning government since 1991, and since late 2006 the county has been engulfed in renewed armed conflict in which thousands of civilians have been killed and tens of thousands forced to flee their homes. It is one of the world’s worst refugee crises with well over a million people repeatedly displaced within Somalia, and 500,000 fleeing to countries in the region.  - Somalis forced to flee war and the worst drought for 10 years are now living in overcrowded and unsanitary camps in Somalia and her neighboring countries: Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Yemen.  - One such camp, the Dadaab camp in northern Kenya, has facilities for 90,000 people, and yet houses over ** 280,000 refugees ** who have no access to basic necessities, including clean water. Some refugees were moved to a camp in north-west Kenya in late 2009 but thousands continue to arrive monthly.  - In Ethiopia, the Shedder camp is home to about ** 8,000 people **, with thousands more arriving there every month. Again here the facilities are not adequate to handle the huge numbers of arriving refugees, leaving them ravaged by the harsh environment and diseas e.

Nixon: Somalia's History Somalia is a country located on the horn of Africa. In the eighteenth century, Somalia over time had developed them and learned. Which is learned by the Islamic faith pastoral nomadism. During the colonial period from 1891 to 1960, Somalia was separated into five mini-Somalia’s they were separated in to the, British Somalia which is the north central of Somalia, French Somalia which is the east and southeast of Somalia, Italian Somalia which is the south of Somalia and finally Ethiopian Somalia. In 1960 the Italian Somaliland and British Somaliland came together and was made into a single independent state.

Doo Ryul: Somalia Famine In Somalia, there are many problems mixed which makes it harder to solve the problem. One of those problems is famine, which is hunger. Almost 50% of Somalis are starving and 700 out of 50000 Somalis dies just because of malnutrition. The main reason why the Somalis don’t have enough food is because of drought. The drought has dried all the crops and the Somalis weren’t able to farm. Therefore, Somalis don’t have enough food so they die or go to the refugee camps to get food.

David: People/Groups Helping: UNICEF UNHCR (United Nations High Commission on Refugees) WHO (World Health Organization) USAID UN Peacekeepers Save the Children The International Red Cross CARE Celebrities

Possible Long-Term Solutions: Stabilize country’s security Implement a good government Build the economy Desalination

Summarize the Proble m
A weak and ineffective government.

Civil war between warring clans.

The Somali state currently exists largely in a legal capacity.

The civil war has disrupted agriculture and food distribution in Somalia. The basis of most of the conflicts is clan allegiances and competition for resources between the warring clans.

There is competition for food, water and imported resources. It is a competition that used to be fought out with arrows and sabers and now it is fought out with AK-47s.

<range type="comment" id="470526">List of Assumptions
I assume that the refugee camp can’t build schools it is because they don’t have the money to build the schools and not enough to support everyone with food, there is also too many people coming into the camp and there is not enough space to build the schools while they have to build the houses because of the large amount of people coming into the camp.

=== L<range type="comment" id="586551">ist of Learning Needs (once you find the answer to each question, you will write a summary sentence or two and the citation beside the question). Note, that you will add to this list throughout the entire project. === >> >> >> > > There isn’t a really big progress because the more committees try to help the Somalis, a group called Al Shabab blocks the committees and kills them, so they can keep the Somali very poor and don’t let them to have food. (New York Times; Upfront, September 19, 2011) > > Somali people often try to immigrate to Kenya, for a better environment. But Kenya cannot let all of them come to their country because they also have limited money to use for their citizens. > > When they had Dictator Siad Barre in government, Somali people made a civil war and overthrown him, which caused the Somali anarchy. But the truth is that Somali anarchy is more orderly than Somalia’s government, when they had on. >> ### a. The World Food Program is flying in tons of Plumpy’nut, which is basically peanut butter in a squeezable package with high calories and easy to transport, gold for a hungry child. However, even with these 50 tons of food for the Somalia’s, they still can’t provide enough. >> >> 11. What are the steps being taken to help the famine victims? Are NGO/GO's, UN or other African nations helping the government? >> >> ### a. Money is coming in, yes. The World Food Program says it has gotten $250 million in new donations but that needs that much again in order to fulfill the need. The World Food Program is flying in food now and it is being distributed by local partners, but from what been seen there is not yet enough distribution on the ground. >> >> i. The fact that the 2,000-person refugee camp in Mogadishu where people didn’t have any food and there was not any aid groups in operation is evidence of that.
 * 1) Why does Somalia have such a larger fertility rate than other countries even though it is the worst developed?
 * 2) It is because women are uneducated and don’t know how to control their fertility rate.
 * 1) What is happening to Somalia that makes the citizens want to escape to Kenya, even though Somalia citizens already know they might get robbed along the way and the refugee camps have already reached their maximum capacity?
 * 2) There is a war in Kenya and people want to escape before they get kidnapped or die because of someone killing them. If they escape they know that their chances of surviving are higher, but they also know that there will be a tough journey ahead.
 * 1) How do committees transport food and money to Kenya without being interrupted by the robbers?
 * 2) They have soldiers from other countries with guns to fend of the Al Shabab that want to steal their recourses that are being transported to the refugee camp. They don’t use their own soldiers because they don’t any of their own people to die.
 * 1) If the UNFC continues to help the refugee camps, then will Kenya grow back to normal?
 * 2) No. Unless the Somalia develops, the refugee camps cannot be emptied. More and more people are coming from Somalia to the Kenya’s refugee camps because it’s hard to live in Somalia without help. UNHCR can continue to help Kenya but to make Kenya go back to normal, we have to get rid of the pirates and other groups of thieves such as Al Shabab out of Somalia.
 * 3) What if there is a disease and there is a cure but not enough money to pay for the cure?
 * 4) I think that we should cure them with less amount of money for them. Person’s life has more value than money. We shouldn’t let people die just because they don’t have money.
 * 5) Why should the UNFC help the Somalia’s?
 * 6) The UNHCR should help Somalia, because Somalia has the most amounts of refugees. They had over 60thousand refugees one and a half year ago. Therefore other refugee camps especially the one in Kenya is having problems. Therefore UNHCR should help Somalia to make Somalis go back to their own country from the refugee camp.
 * 7) Has there been any progress since the first time the committees have sent food and money to the Somalia’s?
 * 1) What is the relationship between Somalia and its neighboring countries?
 * 1) How did Somalia’s government get overthrown, causing it to not have any order and anarchy ruled out?
 * 1) What’ s the food available in Somalia, what foods are the best for the kids, and how can we help them?
 * 1) b. The best way to provide aid is to donate food and money to the WFP, since that is the agency that brings in the most food and assists the most when it comes to Somalia.