Darfur or Southern Somalia? Which is more disastrous to life

[Somali arab mix]

I always hear the news reporting on Darfur, are they im a worse situation than Southern Somalia? I don't know cause im from Cali..

[muslim-man]

where is cali?

[Goljano Lion]

where is cali?

california

[muslim-man]

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[yungnfresh]

Somalia is AT LEAST on par with the situation in Darfur, which isn't a walk in the park either

[Shirib]

There isn't anything worst than southern Somalia.

Darfur something horrible happens every so often, Somalia its everyday

[yungnfresh]

wrong, something horrible only gets reported every so often in Darfur...u think the leaders of the genocide take days off? It's just like Somalia, we're Somalis and we have a connection to the issue in Xamar so we hear more about whats goin on there but regular people don't know when something happens there unless its too big to not cover

[James Dahl]

Mogadishu is the worst humanitarian crisis on earth. 1 million IDPs outside the city and another 1 million in IDP camps elsewhere.

I read that Dusamareb has ballooned to 250,000 people because of the IDPs.

It's as big as Galkacyo now, I think every Ceyr in Mogadishu fled there.

[Brav3Heart]

Southern Somalia is but you wont get any sympathy from the world due to western foriegn policy

[Enlightened~Sista]

Somalia is much much worse..and sadly its been like that for well over 18 years..refugee camps in all the neighbouring countries/regions e.g Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, Northern Somalia..over 5 million outside Somalia including the west..total destruction of the country and its infrastruture as opposed to Sudan which is still largely normal.

I dont give a damn if others care or not..as long as fellow Somalis care...thats all that matters amiin.

Somalia now represents the worst humanitarian crisis in Africa, even worse than the one in Darfur, according to U.N. World Food Program spokesman Peter Smerdon. Many aid workers have fled the country, and a lack of infrastructure, piracy and highway banditry make Somalia "one of the worst operating environments in the world" for those who remain, Smerdon says. He estimates that more than 17 percent of the Somali population is malnourished, most of them women and children.


Also there are other worse humanitarian crises..like Congo


UN Sees East Congo as Worse Crisis Than Darfur By Robert Evans
Reuters

Wednesday 16 March 2005

Geneva - Eastern Congo is suffering the world's worst current humanitarian crisis, with a death toll outstripping that in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region, a top United Nations official said on Wednesday.

U.N. emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland said that over the last six years the toll in the Democratic Republic of Congo's amounted to "one tsunami every six months" - a reference to the December disaster which left about 300,000 people dead or missing in Asia.

"In terms of the human lives lost ... this is the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world today and it is beyond belief that the world is not paying more attention," he told a news conference.

Egeland was speaking during a visit to Geneva for talks with U.N. and other relief workers on improving the global humanitarian aid system can be improved.

On Tuesday he came under fire from the Sudanese government over estimates transmitted through his spokesman that up to 180,000 people may have died from hunger and disease in Darfur, western Sudan, over the past 19 months of fighting.

At his Geneva news conference, he insisted the figure was a reasonable assumption - given that an average of 10,000 civilians had been dying each month since the start of the conflict between local rebel groups and government forces backed by militias.

But the rate was declining now that the Sudanese authorities had allowed foreign aid teams into the country to help about 1.8 million people driven from their homes and largely living in refugee camps, Egeland said.

He spoke before a U.N. envoy in Khartoum said all international staff in part of Western Sudan were being pulled back to the local state capital because of threats from the pro-government Janjaweed militia.

More Focus on Congo

Asked if too much emphasis was being put on Darfur by the international community, and especially big Western powers, Egeland said: "The amount of focus on Darfur is correct, but there is too little on (eastern) Congo."

Egeland, fresh from a tour of the region, said he had impressed on the Sudanese government and rebels that they had to negotiate seriously for peace.

He had also expressed indignation to the government in Khartoum that some women raped by Janjaweed fighters and now pregnant were being persecuted for violating Islamic sharia law against sexual relations outside marriage.

"That is the ultimate insult for women who have been raped," he declared.

Egeland said the problems in eastern Congo arose because of the complexity and variety of the fighting groups there, which included regular soldiers, militias and criminal groups.

Among the fighters in eastern Congo are ethnic Hutus who fled Rwanda after the 1994 genocide there - many of them accused of involvement in the violence in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.

The United Nations has mounted a major relief operation in the region, where Egeland said some 3 million civilians buffeted by the conflict are in need of help to survive, and this week gave militia fighters two weeks to disarm.

[Hyperactive]

i don't know about southern somalia
balse my ader works in darfur
he was talking about real deaster.

[FAH1223]

Mogadishu = Worst Place on Earth.

[PINK_BUNNY]

Somalia is worse than Darfur accordin 2 the UN!! Though it would seem the otha way.

[Xaaji_Xundjuf]

Mogadishu = Worst Place on Earth.

i agree let it stay like that inshallah

[FAH1223]

Mogadishu = Worst Place on Earth.

i agree let it stay like that inshallah

WTF

Horrible Thing to say. Xamar needs to see the light of civilization again.