Obasanjo: International Community, Africa Failed Somalia
The rising death toll of innocent Somali citizens could have long been nipped, but for a deliberate turning away by the international community, former President Olusegun Obasanjo said in Nairobi.
“We have collectively failed the Somali child, the Somali woman and the Somali people,” Obasanjo said in a keynote address, which he delivered at a meeting on “Somalia’s Finance and Economic Issues,” on Friday.
“We have failed ourselves,” he said in the address entitled: “The Advancement of Peace in Somalia,” which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. ”We cannot continue and we should stop the implicit and latent ranking of conflicts which had relegated the Somalia issue to the background,” Obasanjo said, adding that the international community continued to show preference for some countries by ranking conflicts across the globe, while forgetting the common humanity that bound all. Read more »
