Somalia

American Police Action: A Controversy The United States has consistently been the world’s most powerful country, which is a title many Americans are undoubtedly proud to hold. However, with the responsibility that comes with being the most powerful country in the world, the United States has to decide how to use their power. A common but controversial topic is if the US should be the world’s policeman. Time and time again, the world has seen the US act as a global policeman, but there have…

KOYASO LEKOLOI SHOT His first elephant in anger. The hundred or so that followed he killed for money. During nearly two decades as a poacher, bandit, thief, and alleged murderer Lekoloi killed more elephants than any other individual in northern Kenya until, tired of life on the run, he decided to give up poaching. I met Lekoloi by the side of a dry riverbed just outside Samburu National Reserve in Kenya’s arid, craggy north. We sat on the ground beneath a towering acacia tree to talk. The sand…

“During the last ten years, at least 200,000 young people have been involved in wars in different parts of the world. Some of these areas might include Afghanistan, Angola, Burma, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan and the Former Yugoslavia” (Skinner3). In most previous states like Afghanistan, this makes issues since it is destroying children knowing they won't have the capacity to carry on with a typical life and the war will remain with…

didn’t get along. “She chose him over me.”, he stated. Students was just homeless in the United States, but in other countries as well. Asad Dahir says, “I’ve been homeless more than one time and in more than one country.” Dahir was originally from Somalia, who then fled his homeland due to civil war and ended up in a refugee camp in Kenya. These three students were very lucky to receive that scholarship on the behalf of…

are going through. Those children who are not fighting may be used as cooks, messengers, spies, really just in any way the commander wants (Child Soldiers). Kids from many different countries are being recruited, some places including; South Sudan, Somalia, Philippines, and Afghanistan. Child soldiers are seen to be easier to recruit into the military. Some of the children do choose to join the military based on their education or protection of themselves and family. Not a lot of these children…

Following the Korean War, the United States was convinced that more had to be done to combat communism. The goal had shifted slightly from simply containing communism, to pushing it back. Eisenhower proposed liberating countries under attack from communist ones, much like the Truman doctrine, but the plan failed. Unrest in Eastern Europe led to rebellions, but the United States refused to help the protesters, and the USSR quelled the unrest. Despite that, the United States increased its…

armed groups that represent for individuals that are harmed. The issue with using military force is that it also takes the lives of some innocent people. In Benjamin Valentino’s reading there were 18 soldiers in the US who passed away in 1993 in Somalia in the “Black Hawk” incident. The United states and United Nation troops killed about 500 Somalian’s and about 1500 during the mission. Half of those people were vulnerable woman and children. Military interventions make the costs of abuses from…

attacks on Sep. 11, 2001, that the Bush administration was able to authorize the armed Predator program and begin the subsequent "War on Terror," which enabled the United States to begin the use of thousands of drones to kill suspected terrorists in Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other countries. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles has created great controversy in recent years; this is in part because of the September 2011 authorized, targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. Awlaki…

What is Freedom? “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” (King 3). In this quote, Dr. King addresses one must fight back for what is right. If your civil liberties are provoked, you must rise too top the oppressor. This a strong quote from Dr. King which I openly agree with because it shows the amount of honor in his words to revolt against the government. Dr. King was flouted by many because he…

However, it is important to address how and why so many regions in the globe still regularly perform the procedure. Prevalence rates are high among Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan, among others (Krick 41). Many speculate that religion plays a large role in the practice, however research has had a hard time defining “religion” due to the many ways a religion can be interpreted (Hayford 255). Between Muslim women,…