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Article: According to the UN, the worst catastrophe in Africa is not taking place in Kenya, or even Darfur. Fifteen years after the disastrous Black Hawk Down incident, Somalia has more refugees than any country in the world
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 9, 2008
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Khalid Abdullahi lives down a winding dusty track, among cactus
trees and chickens pecking at the rubbish piled up against rusting
corrugated iron walls. In this anonymous corner of Mogadishu, a city
destroyed a dozen times over in the past 17 years, he shares a dirt-
floored shack with more than 20 brothers and sisters, aunts and
uncles, a niece and nephews.
Khalid was nine the day his father died in 1993. "We were sitting
here in this room when we heard a big noise," he says. The "big
noise" was the sound of an American Black Hawk helicopter being shot
down and crashing into Khalid's house.
Eighteen US Army Rangers were killed in the firefight that
followed. Their broken bodies were ...