Somalia: The Poorest Still Find a Way to Shelter Refugees

Published: December 11, 2007, 9:26 pm

A Wealth of Kindness Among Somalia’s Poorest Clan Ties Open Doors for Refugees From Capital Stephanie McCrummen (Washington Post) …Nearly a year after Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia with U.S. support to oust an Islamic movement there, the Somali capital of Mogadishu remains locked in a brutal urban war that has driven an estimated 600,000 people — more than half the city’s population — into the countryside. U.N. officials say Somalia has descended into the continent’s worst humanitarian crisis, a situation veering toward famine in some areas. Yet in the narrow streets that wind through this town of whitewashed buildings, it is difficult to find even one encampment of displaced people or a family that has been turned away. Instead, the tired and hungry arrivals — about 15,000 of them this year — have been quietly absorbed into the grass-roofed houses of local residents such as Mohamed, who estimates she has hosted 10 families over the

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