As a result of a continuous foreign-backed conflict, drought and famine, Somalia has remained in a cycle of humanitarian crisis and fragile governance that persists to this day.
The Donald Trump adminstration called this a kind of cultural failing internal to Somalia.
But it’s clear that world powers had long orchestrated the conditions that made collapse inevitable and the aftermath totally unmanageable.
This history is essential for understanding that the Somali refugees who arrived in Minnesota were fleeing not just ‘chaos’ in the abstract but the consequences of decades of imperial and foreign maneuvering.
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Galakkan pembangunan saksama, lestari serta tangani krisis alam sekitar
Raikan kerencaman dan keterangkuman
Selamatkan demokrasi dan angkatkan keluhuran undang-undang
Lawan rasuah dan kronisme
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