{"id":2155,"date":"2007-12-03T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T17:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2007-12-03T11:29:56","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T17:29:56","slug":"crisis-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/12\/03\/crisis-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest120307\/2007_12_03_lefkow.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest120307\/2007_12_03_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/ap\/20071203\/capt.0ca6c082f3fa4d4b862503a9f35e8a46.somalia_nai102.jpg?x=380&#038;y=285&#038;sig=aLX20M08B_HHeLYewYOhog--\" alt=\"Somalia\" \/><em>GUEST: Leslie Lefkow, Senior Researcher at Human Rights Watch<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The top humanitarian official at the United Nations, John Holmes, has urged more aid for Somalia, where serious violence has killed hundreds this year and sparked a dire humanitarian crisis. Somalia is considered one of the world\u2019s worst developing humanitarian crises but very few aid agencies have been able to establish permanent and efficient operations there citing frequent check points and extortion. The political context of the crisis lies in the fierce fighting between Ethiopia-backed Somali forces and Islamist rebels which displaced at least 600,000 people from the capital Mogadishu since February. With the tacit approval of the US, the neighboring nation of Ethiopia intervened militarily in Mogadishu, enabling Somalia\u2019s current transitional government to reclaim power from the Council of Islamic Courts militia. Senior United Nations officials in the region consider Somalia to be the worst humanitarian crisis in Africa, surpassing even Darfur in its horror and hopelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Leslie Lefkow, Senior Researcher at Human Rights Watch The top humanitarian official at the United Nations, John Holmes, has urged more aid for Somalia, where serious violence has killed hundreds this year and sparked a dire humanitarian crisis. Somalia is considered one of the world\u2019s worst developing humanitarian crises but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}