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Living in the Line of Fire in Somalia

December 15th, 2008 | by Coco McCabe
Mogadishu, Somalia

Mogadishu, Somalia

The first line of a recent update sent by colleagues working on Somalia has been stuck in my head all weekend: The country has been without an effective central government since 1991. That’s almost 18 years—a lifetime for countless kids who have known nothing but the chaos and fear factional fighting inflicts on everybody.

What if that’s all you knew? What would that do to your understanding of the world? What would it do to your sense of hope?

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