Rediscovering Somalia (fairness and accuracy in reporting)
Jun 11th, 2008 • News
Rediscovering Somalia
By Julie Hollar
After years of paying scant attention to Somalia, U.S. media suddenly rediscovered the war-torn African nation in 2006 when a coalition of Islamic courts and their affiliated militias imposed peace on feuding warlords and began enforcing religious law. A U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion soon loomed, and the Bush administration made the preferred story [...]
