By Somali girls/women I mean those who are in Somalia who 'willingly' seem to accept being treated little better than an animal. They have few rights, are seen as 'baby producing factories' and are forced to mutilate their genitals at young age. Also young girls around the age of six are forced to wear hijab/headscarve. Why is that?

Can these African countries only resolve issues by fighting?

somali famine is a sad chapter in our lives but my questions is what happens after that? How can we ensure that this never happens again. - Population control - Education - Investment in infrastructure and irrigation systems - Equal rights for women etc

Why doesn't he move his family there then? Doesn't he like the mess he created?

Juxa;730098 wrote: Allaha unaxariisto hinda I have seen with my own indho 23 year old pregnant with 5th child during a visit to xamar years ago. when i told her to plan as her health was already failing, she replied unless i give birth every year he will marry another. he did marry several others but it was not because of lack of pregnancy (it is just how it is over there). she now has 8 living and several died in infancy or child birth (she says waa saqiireen) the point i am trying to make it people need to stop interfering and putting pressure on married couples. it is not right being asked when you should or why you are not pregnant! that is very private and equals to asking a person whether they engage oh well. As blessed said children need to be nurtured few years before the next one is planned, but that responsibility is not on the woman alone. Hebel should be sterilised if nothing else works And that ladies and gentleman, is why Somalia is an uncivilized fourth world country.

Alpha Blondy;738509 wrote: it sickens me that people think this immoral practice is fine. Whichever cave did you crawl from?

Why doesn't he stay in the awful mess he and his idiotic followers created back in Southern Somalia?

OdaySomali;738402 wrote: Poor people with large families are not poor because they have large families but they have large families because they are poor. If you are poor and have few children, you are more likely to remain poor [particularly in old age] and you may still lose your few children. Furthermore, if you are poor, you are less likely to have access to birth-control. You see, children are only an economic burden up untill the age of ~6 after which they are seen as an asset in two ways. (1) Children will work i.e. tend the animals, beg etc. and thus provide livelihoods for the family more than the parents alone would be able to provide. (2) In old age, those children that do survive, and the idea of having many children is that at the least some will survive , will provide for and care for the parents as there are no social security systems to fall back on. Take a typical nomadic Somali family for example. without many children to look after your livestock, are you more or less able to rear and grow your livestock? It is a known fact and this has been proven by statistics worldwide, that as people become more affluent, they have less children. Children still need to be fed, clothed and educated.

Che -Guevara;738377 wrote: ^Apparently, changing weather patterns, deforestation, prolonged conflict, lack of viable government, and poverty are not contributing factors..a mother with seven kids must be the problem. looooool@green people...God bless them. It is not a mother with seven kids, it is the whole population group who are having too many children. These kids are going to grow without education and 'lack of viable government' and continue the circle of poverty.

yahya007;738479 wrote: So you believe in the so called family planning? do it your self and see the disadvantages. one being having 2 kids. one dump and the other one deaf. The less kids you have, the more wealth you spread around.

Say what you want to say about the US but they have commited over 500 million dollars in food aid to Somalis.

grasshopper;738444 wrote: this is so inspiring! meanwhile saudi arabia is building a useless tower worth over $1bill... Not useless, in the coming years it will greatly benefit their country's economy.

Does anyone here follow wrestling? If so, do you favour WWE Monday Night Raw, Friday Night Smackdown or TNA Impact Wrestling? If you watch Monday Night Raw, what do you think of the rivalries between John Cena and CM Punk? etcetera...

In 1960, the population of Somalia was roughly around 2.8 million. Now the population stands at 11 million and growing by 450 000 people every year. Surely you can see that is unsustainable. Take for example the recent famine, we all see in press and media reports about young mothers with seven starving children who can do nothing to feed their children. If they had adopted birth control and family planning, the famine would not have such an impact. Somali's birth rate is one the highest if the world and it does not have green pastures and fertile agricultaral land like Britain and therefore cannot feed its people. Somalia also does not have a functioning government who can invest heavily intro irrigation, infrastructure and education. Don't you see why the rest of world is turning a blind eye to Somalia because of actions like these?

We need one million Somalis or so to passionately resist Islamism, piracy and tribalism so we can start to rebuild our country.

Tight knit community? My best advice for Somalis in the diaspora is to avoid Somali culture altogether and integrate.