The World Food Programme has warned that Somalia is on the verge of famine, worsened by US aid cutbacks and the economic fallout from the war with Iran.
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Keating grapples with the unsettling juxtaposition: Trump publicly disparages Somalia as 'no good for a reason,' calls it 'the worst country on Earth,' and has referred to Somalis as 'low-IQ people' — yet his administration is running an escalating military campaign there. Keating argues these aren't directly linked in a simple causal way: the strikes are conducted in partnership with the Somali government, and Trump doesn't appear to be personally supervising the daily targeting. But the worldview connects them: Trump sees Somalia as a place of irredeemable chaos, which in his mind justifies both bombing it and keeping its people out of the United States. The president, Keating observes, seems to learn about US operations in Somalia the same way ordinary Americans do — from news articles on his social media feed.
The World Food Programme warns Somalia is on the verge of famine — a crisis deepened by US USAID cuts and rising food and fuel prices from the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Armed groups like al-Shabaab weaponize food insecurity for recruitment.
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