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Doctors Without Borders Executive: Much Of Somalia Can't Be Helped

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First Posted: 09/04/11 11:38 AM ET Updated: 11/04/11 06:12 AM ET

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The head of an international medical charity has called on aid agencies to stop presenting a misleading picture of the famine in Somalia and admit that helping the worst-affected people is almost impossible.

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The head of an international medical charity has called on aid agencies to stop presenting a misleading picture of the famine in Somalia and admit that helping the worst-affected people is almost impo...
The head of an international medical charity has called on aid agencies to stop presenting a misleading picture of the famine in Somalia and admit that helping the worst-affected people is almost impo...
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pinkibus
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06:34 PM on 09/04/2011
"I met a woman who had left her home with her husband and seven children to walk to Mogadishu and had arrived after five days with only four children," he said.

Too bad birth control and sex education wasn't used twenty years ago. That way the woman might have started out with four children and her husband and arrived with four children. Religions don't like birth control. God needs more souls.
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NikiStikz
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01:59 PM on 09/04/2011
Very sad that the state of affairs in Somalia is so complex, and so interwoven with the war and clan conflict that these doctors and other aid groups can't get where they need to be with the aid that they are trying to deliver. A very realistic and brutally honest outlook from Karunakara. Thanks for treating me like the adult I am.
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11:29 AM on 09/04/2011
I told you so in earlier posts on the subject.
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