The world turns a blind eye as war-torn Somalia’s hospitals crumble

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1. SS: As USAID funding evaporates under Trump’s “America First” cuts—slashing 6,000 health jobs and jeopardizing 2,000 facilities—Somalia’s crumbling hospitals like Mogadishu’s Banadir and De Martino expose the fragility of donor-dependent aid in a nation laser-focused on Mohamud’s “total war” against al-Shabaab. With diphtheria surging in rural areas amid militant threats deterring vaccinations, and a meager $91M health budget dwarfed by security spending, this neglect risks amplifying insurgent recruitment and regional instability in the Horn of Africa. Does the West’s retreat—echoing post-1991 chaos—cede ground to Turkish influence or AU peacekeepers, or force Mogadishu toward self-reliance in a multipolar aid landscape where health is the new front in counter-extremism?

2. Yeah well “Trump cuts US aid” doesn’t roll off the tongue as easily as “Genocide Joe” so naturally college students don’t care about this.

3. Somalia had zero political advantage for the US establishment. If there was something to be had, they might be interested. The Cold War at least made Americans slightly interested in the developing world.

4. Frankly, seeing as any aid with actual conditions on it to prevent corruption gets branded as colonialism by the people in these countries and usual suspects in the west. I have trouble caring.

   The US spent a billion dollars a year on this country, and yet politicians of Somalian origin in the US continued to call it imperialist and racist. Enough.

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