Maantaba malkaa inagu qummane, yaan la gees marine,
Marka aanad hammon noloshu waa, mooyi dabadeede,
Madhax ma laha aadmigu wuxuu, kuu mitamiyaaye,
macaluul wax kaagama taraan, maal laguu guraye,
midigtaadu waxay xoogsataa, maydha kaa jara e’ ,
Abdillahi Suldaan Maxamed ( Timacadde), 1971
“In the mighty vortex of history, which inevitably crushes all peoples that are not as hard and as flexible as steel, such a community could not permanently maintain itself” (Theodore Mommsen, 1908). Without overlooking the discernable variability in the condition of the Somali people, these are, indeed, dark times for the majority. All indictors of the major spheres of existence, from environmental, economic, cultural, political, to personal security, point to the build up of vulnerabilities, best captured by this alarming fact: nearly half of the population is now considered as malnourished.
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