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MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network) – Some of famine hit people who recently arrived at the Somali capital started eating cactus because of hunger. It is sadness and gloomy when you visit to Mogadishu IDPs camps where very poor destitute people live in.

Shabelle has learnt there are some of famine victims in Mogadishu’s Hodan district started to eat cactus.In those makeshifts made of old clothes, sticks and cartoons, old people, weak women and malnourished children dwell.

With aid food flooding in to Mogadishu by the seaport and airport, hunger forced those people to feed prickly pears and cactus. they said they had been there for twenty days, and they received no aid food so far.

70 year old woman at the IDPs camp told Shabelle while holding cactus with spines in hand to eat that hunger is forcing them to feed it.
During droughts Somalis sometimes burn off the spines and feed prickly pears to their livestock. Because they contain so much water, they can even replace the animals.

http://www.shabelle.net/article.php?id=11353

fatimazahra wrote:MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network) – Some of famine hit people who recently arrived at the Somali capital started eating cactus because of hunger. It is sadness and gloomy when you visit to Mogadishu IDPs camps where very poor destitute people live in.

Shabelle has learnt there are some of famine victims in Mogadishu’s Hodan district started to eat cactus.In those makeshifts made of old clothes, sticks and cartoons, old people, weak women and malnourished children dwell.

With aid food flooding in to Mogadishu by the seaport and airport, hunger forced those people to feed prickly pears and cactus. they said they had been there for twenty days, and they received no aid food so far.

70 year old woman at the IDPs camp told Shabelle while holding cactus with spines in hand to eat that hunger is forcing them to feed it.
During droughts Somalis sometimes burn off the spines and feed prickly pears to their livestock. Because they contain so much water, they can even replace the animals.

http://www.shabelle.net/article.php?id=11353

How reliable is this information? After the millions that have been poured in, one would think that hunger is under control. Could it be case that this is part of the a) process of milking the global community b) Muqdisho bashing?

I hope people can figure out how to prepare the good ones. People eat cactus in many places in Latin America, I am not sure if it is popular in Africa though

http://www.succulent-plant.com/crecipe.html