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Food aid to Somalia is being diverted and stolen on a massive scale, according to a leaked United Nations report. Anchor Marco Werman gets the details from Jeffrey Gettleman, East Africa correspondent for the New York Times. Download MP3 (Photo courtesy of World Food Program)
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Somali Islamists will avenge the killing by U.S. forces of a top al-Qaeda suspect in Somalia, a top al-Shabab commander has told the BBC. Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan is believed to have been killed in a U.S. military helicopter raid. American agents had been hunting Nabhan for years. Jason Margolis reports. Download MP3 (AFP/Getty photo shows Islamist fighter in Mogadishu)Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
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Somalia has experienced almost constant conflict since the collapse of its central government in 1991, and Mogadishu is ground zero for the failed state in East Africa. Writer Robert Draper visited the country for National Geographic Magazine. Katy Clark talked with Draper about his experience in Somalia. >>>View pictures from Mogadishu (courtesy of National Geographic)
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Download MP3Today on The World: Why the Pentagon is asking a PR firm to rate the work of reporters embedded with US military forces; we hear about the violence and chaos that have made Somalia the prime example of a failed state. Plus, why IKEA customers in China spend so much time in the store — but seldom buy anything.
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Download MP3Anchor Katy Clark speaks with Robert Draper, author of an article on Somalia that appears in the September issue of the National Geographic Magazine. Draper travelled to Somalia to document the violence and chaos that have plagued the country for nearly two decades.
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On the second day of her Africa tour Secretary Clinton met with Somalia’s President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed in Kenya as Somalia itself is too dangerous for foreign diplomats. After the talks Clinton said, the U.S. would expand support for Somalia’s UN-backed unity government. Robert Patterson is the U.S. Counselor for Somali Affairs. He tells anchor Marco Werman what Washington is doing to help the leader of one of the world’s most lawless nations. >>>The World’s Katy Clark on U.S. support for Somalia’s fragile government
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Somalia has experienced almost constant conflict since the collapse of its central government in 1991. The long-running instability has created misery for its people. And it’s spilled over into its east African neighbor, Kenya, home to many ethnic Somalis. Heba Aly has the story of one Kenyan community that’s lost one of its young men to the insurgency.
Correspondent Heba Aly has the story of a young man from central Kenya who went to fight with the insurgents in Somalia. He’s believed to have blown himself up in a suicide bombing. Now his family and friends worry that other young men from his village will follow his path. Listen
We were looking for the name of a book, and a country in Africa. The answers are “Out of Africa,” and Kenya. Listen
President Obama made his first public remarks about the rescue of cargo ship captain Richard Phillips from pirates this weekend. But the president was quiet on the subject of broader US policy toward Somalia. The World’s Jeb Sharp has more. download
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Jeffrey Gettleman of the New York Times about a bottom-up approach to helping to resolve the chaos in Somalia. download
