Technically Speaking
South Asia Technical Analysis with Phil Smith
from Africa News blog:
Update on the refugee camp that now lives in the sky
(Updates reaction from ECHO in paragraph 9)
Screen grab of the introduction to the online game "The City That Shouldn't Exist"
A few months ago I wrote a story about a controversial online game posted on Facebook called the “The City That Shouldn’t Exist” that was consequently pulled off the Web days after its launch amid claims it objectified refugees and lacked sensitivity.
The game developed by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) with funding from ECHO, the European Commission’s humanitarian agency, and designed to raise awareness of Dadaab refugee camp on the Kenyan-Somali border, is now back online but with some noticeable changes.
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The Wall
The fighting in Somalia which has left scores of deaths and many more displaced is a tragedy which no one can dare explain to others.However,this latest crisis due to the drought affecting millions of Somalis and has forced many to flee in search of food and clean water has taken another sad events in modern history and the international community who have been so generous are now turning a blind eye to this unprecedented crisis in Somalia.The so called al shabab terrorists groups who at first were not willing to allowing any food aid to enter the areas they control.Even though they know very well that they can not provide food for the people, shows how mentally ill these groups are.They also never realised that no man can live alone and no man is an island.Their aims are to topple the transitional western backed government and the implementation of sharia law through out the country,but that seems to be backfiring quickly.This is now the time for them to ask themselves this simple question:”Does fighting and fighting really worth the suffering of their people who are now desperately in need of food?While aid organisations are calling for help to prevent the massive deaths of the people in Somalia is it not time to down their weapons and work towards peace to rebuild that war torn country for over 20 good years in the making.Obviously the masks of these groups have fallen down and the darkest side of them is being exposed and will continue to do so.I am kindly appealing for the world not to ignore Somalia because of a group of terrorist who donot want peace in the region.Please help Somalia,please.