From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Wed Jul 07 2010 - 11:01:47 EDT
Jeffrey Gettleman: Reporting From Mogadishu
Jeffrey Gettleman calls Somalia the "most dangerous place in the world."
Listen Radio: http://www.ethiomedia.com/freedom/gettleman_on_npr.mp3
07/07/2010
The East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times tells Fresh Air's Terry
Gross that the country - where violent rebels fight for control and wreak
havoc in villages nationwide - is just as hopeless as it was in 1991, when
the central government collapsed.
"There's no green zone. There's no one part of Somalia that's safe,"
Gettleman says. "That's the problem. In some of these other countries like
Iraq or Afghanistan, where I've worked, there are conflict areas, there are
lawless areas, but there's one part of the country that is somewhat stable,
where if you needed help, you could get it. In Somalia, that doesn't really
exist."........
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