Blog 2-Current Event

I recently read an article about the terrible warfare in Mogadishu, Kenya. Terrified Somalis fled offensive attacks from Islamist insurgents. The scene that was described in the article was brutal. There was said to have been putrefying corpses and neighborhoods flatten by mortars. Some were able to flee the attacks but those of the poorer families faced the heart-breaking choice of who would stay behind. A man interviewed spoke on the progression of the attacks and how it was first bullets but it progressed to the rebels launching mortars. Later in the week Mogadishu’s airport was attacked. It was said to have been suicide bombers and explosives that set off chaos in the terminal. Few who reached the refugee camps reported on the rotting bodies and over flowing hospital. This article made me think how ignorant most people are to the rest of world. Right now there is a war happening and I wonder how many people in this country know that. I also wonder what America and other countries can do to lend aid. Yes I understand that there are issues happening throughout the world, but it is eye- opening when I read things such as this. Reading articles and the news is so fundamental in knowing what is happening outside your own country. Reading this article exposed my own ignorance to the struggle that is happening in Kenya. It is a tragedy to read about warfare and to wonder what I could do to help. Writing this and informing people is my aid. Hopefully this hits people the way it did me. My heart goes out to the families in this country who still have family in Mogadishu.