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Comments on: How to Plan a Trip to Somalia http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/how_to_plan_a_trip_to_somalia/ Championing Independent Journalism Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jake Simkin http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/how_to_plan_a_trip_to_somalia/#comment-1512 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:21:29 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=3970#comment-1512 I’m going!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/how_to_plan_a_trip_to_somalia/#comment-1511 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:27:40 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=3970#comment-1511 I think the other point to make is that a lot of humanitarian work there at the moment is not only not helping, but positively making things worse – see DfID’s decision to stop supporting the UNDP Rule of Law and Security work. Benefits minimal (to negative) and risks high.

Not a tough one

]]> By: Rohan Jayasekera http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/how_to_plan_a_trip_to_somalia/#comment-1510 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:22:35 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=3970#comment-1510 Well, I did Iraq and Afghanistan and a few other places, including Sri Lanka & Bosnia, where I was kidnapped (albeit briefly but undeniably uncomfortably) and I’m perfectly able to believe my Somali and non-Somali colleagues’ word that Somalia is a class apart from all of them.

But how can we accept that (apart from suicide peltonistas. I guess) Somalia is just… closed.

But

]]> By: Joe Lowry http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/how_to_plan_a_trip_to_somalia/#comment-1509 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:40:07 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=3970#comment-1509 I was there in 1993 wiht GOAL for five months. Looking back on it I was bloody lucky to get out alive, not everyone did, and not everyone took the risks a 27-year-old naive show-off would have. But we did have people we trusted, literally with our lives, and they did save our stupid skins, more than once. But good people, wonderful people, were killed. Weigh up the risks, they are very high, and knowing that can you really risk leaving loved ones? Does that arguement work for smokers?

]]> By: Mona http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/how_to_plan_a_trip_to_somalia/#comment-1508 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:18:40 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=3970#comment-1508 Spot on. There’s no comparison to Iraq or Afghanistan.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/how_to_plan_a_trip_to_somalia/#comment-1507 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:24:54 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=3970#comment-1507 Too friggin right, Martin. I’ve got Christmas to look forward to

]]> By: mg http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/how_to_plan_a_trip_to_somalia/#comment-1506 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:00:58 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=3970#comment-1506 bottler!

]]> By: dd http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/how_to_plan_a_trip_to_somalia/#comment-1505 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:38:57 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=3970#comment-1505 Best logistical analysis I’ve seen!

]]> By: Paul C http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/how_to_plan_a_trip_to_somalia/#comment-1504 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:04:39 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=3970#comment-1504 Bang on – Somalia remains top of my list of “places that I won’t work”. However I guess some people see it as a rite of passage – a test of their “Robert Young Pelton” credentials?

]]> By: Tamar http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/how_to_plan_a_trip_to_somalia/#comment-1503 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:59:37 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=3970#comment-1503 brilliant!

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