Tuesday, December 9, 2008

From Somalia with Love

"The most militant group is the Shabab, a multiclan insurgent force that the United States classifies as a terrorist organization. Just a few weeks ago, the Shabab kidnapped a man it accused of being a spy and slowly sawed off his head with a dull knife, videotaping the whole episode."

The article.

Sixty years after de-colonialization, standards of living in much of Africa continue to decline. No plateau, no hard road uphill, Africa is still declining. How many generations, centuries, can this go on?

1 comment:

  1. Wait, don't we have the U.N. Human Rights Council to tell them to stop. Did they even tell them . . .

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