A dry mattress, a morning cuppa joe... and Somalia

Since 2009 and two million hits ago, this Blog has had perhaps three or four different purposes. One of them was always to awaken a thankful heart and to encourage a realization of what others go through
almost everywhere
 but in our lovely space

Prayers for Somalia. Today, exhausted doctors are struggling to keep their eyes open. They are frantically attending to screaming patients, many burned beyond recognition, who are continuously entering and exiting the hospital like a horrific revolving door. They are the victims of a double truck bombing that occurred on Saturday on a crowded street in Mogadishu. It is the deadliest attack in Somalia, claiming over 300 lives and counting. Sub-Saharan Africa has not seen this level of violence since the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Somalia’s government is blaming the Al Qaeda linked al-Shabab extremist group for the bloodshed. The Shabab, which once controlled most of the city, have lost much of their territory in the area thanks to the Somali Army and American counterterrorism operations. Despite these efforts, they remain a deadly threat to the people of Somalia. Hundreds of people have been killed or wounded in attacks on the capital this year alone. The Somali president commen

Source:  Here

And more

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/18/thousands-march-somalia-attack-truck-bomb-mogadishu





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