Somalia

Somalia is a poorest nation globally, and the famine situation of the country is due numerous factors. Some of the factors are human made while others are natural. Among the primary factor of poor situation is natural famine which is brought by insufficient rain throughout the year (Binder and Martin, 56). Also, the crisis is brought by poor leadership of which the government has reduced social, economic and political strategies which do not support the welfare of the ordinary citizen. Similarly, the terrorist group of Al Shabab has considerably contributed to the crisis being experienced in the nation. Therefore, the description and analysis of famine crisis will be discussed as below:

First, the situation of Somalia famine is due to the strategic positioning of Somalia. The nation is found in the Horn of Africa in which it receives inadequate rainfall throughout the year. Therefore, individuals in the country do not participate in agriculture to produce food security. From the time immemorial, agricultural products are the underlying security of hunger. Any nation which does not provide its food has a lot of human crisis which might lead to losing of human life (Bragg and Catherine, 67). Therefore, in the state of Somalia, they do not produce any food which can sustain the nation for a long period.

The second situation of Somalia famine is that the nation has communities which depend primarily on pastorals of which they have larger herds of animals which move around with them to look for water and green pasture. Such kind of movement has cost a lot of losing and a waste of time since they do not settle at one point to participate in the dangerous economic activities for food production. They lack diversification of economic activities which could have enabled them to overcome some of the issues without depending heavily on the external support from humanitarians. The lives of moving with herds of cattle have been a long live factor in the past, current as well as future Somalia crisis.

The third situation of famine is that in Somalia, there is the presence of terrorist attack well known as Al Shabab. This is a group of people in the country that have unstable the nation for a longer period. The group has a common agenda of making sure the entire country has no peace, love, and unit. Since these three are the pillars of the ordinary citizen which enable them to built the nation through participation in the national implementation of development policies in all sectors of the Somalia economy. Due to the Al Shabab rampant attacking activities, the group is believed to be connected to al-Qaeda. This is among the world worst terrorist group which have cause inevitable damages on the human social, economic and political well-being, hence is among the worse sources of Somalia crisis.

The key role of Al Shabab has competing to hold power and install strict Islamic law in the whole country. The United State of America has been intervening in the situation of eliminating this group of Al Shabab through the political situation by installing a government of pro-democracy and preventing humanitarian aid to sustain terrorist groups. In summary, Al Shabab has played a significance role in the contemporary crisis of Somalia and general suffering of everyday citizens. 

The prevalent situation of Somaliland famine is the due failure of the government to safeguard her citizens. From the historical point of view about twenty years down the line, there had been unfolding famine and the failure of support from the international community to intercede the protection of the vulnerable citizens efficiently.

In Somalia there had been factions as well as warlords, competing for limited resources and they fail to provide services and the human support to its people. Leading too many immigrants who fled the nation for their survival hence became refugees in other nations.

Additionally, other situation of Somalia crisis they all stems from the colonial period with the Britain as well as Italy who formed protectorates in Somaliland.  Dated back from  1960, after attaining independence, however, Somalia continuously affected by droughts, which turned into famines as a result of lacking proper systems as well as processes to protect food security and other human problems of their people.

Also in  about last twenty years, after a long disastrous United State -led intervention, after their withdrawal  from Somalia in the 1990s, and having utterly abortive in their responsibilities of setting a safe nation as well as enabling the susceptible citizens in by given food, it is invariable cycle of involvement where charitable aid with  relief food have been brought in simply  because  the will of confined warlords and clans with such kind of authority in the course of rifle and let food available to Somali people (Prudhon et al., 234). Therefore, such kind of poor local leadership has contributed immensely to the crisis of which the Somalis are facing today.

The situation of famine in Somalia is provided by the external pressure from interested nations such as the United States of America having the interest in oil and other natural resources. These countries are believed to cause instability of the country by supporting one side of local and clan lords. The problems are significant from the Gulf of Aden and the United States of America in trying to put a pro-democracy administration so that they get into Somalia through the Gulf of Aden safely without interference by the pirates.

The issue of corruption is believed to be another situation of Somalia famine. The Somalia regime of government luck leadership of transparency and accountability in which the limited resources are misused in the few hands of individuals (Tar et al., 178).  The nation had been looted toward collapse, and the economy does not stand to sustain itself. Corruption is a state of misuse of resources by the selfish individual who lacks good morals of leading people. Similarly, There is absolute corruption in a sense humanitarian aid given to the nation to help needy citizens is overturned its function and redeployed to support troops and the insurgent forces of the region. Such situation contributes to looming crisis since the aiding organization has realized such menace and could not help citizens any longer. 

Crisis in Syria

The country of Syria has faced various challenges due to famine and crisis. The hunger and crisis in Syria have been causing by different factors.  Also, a crisis such as civil war occurred in Syria which has created the crisis of humanitarian. Many people in Syria have lost their lives due to a crisis of war. It is argued that most of the crisis is blamed to be caused by climatically changes. Crisis and famine in Syria are caused by factors as discussed below.

First, the situation of hunger is due to global warming. Global warming in Syria in the year 2006 resulted to the worst drought in the history of Syria has never been experienced.  Drought in Syria which lasted for extended period ruined farms thus all plantings in those farms was never harvested. Furthermore, drought caused the death of livestock was depended by most people in Syria as a source of income. Similarly, water in Syria due to drought gets scarce; it, therefore, means that not only human beings in Syria suffered but also all living things suffered. It is discouraging to learn that almost half of the Syria country is at most risk to suffer due to a tremendous shortage of water in the next decade. At the same time, there is increasing demand for water due to always increase in the Syria population, therefore, leading to a crisis of water (Johnston and Lisette, 89). Long lasting drought in Syria is the primary cause of food items to be expensive. Social chaos and sufferings due to global warming such as drought were the main root situation of the unrest and which led to the crisis in Syria. 

The second case of famine in Syria was due to religious war. Holy war in Syria arises between two religion group in Syria such Protestant and Catholic. Both religion groups in Syria were each one fighting to be more superior and more recognize than the other which lead to dangerous war. The war in Syria due to religion difference between Protestant and Catholic, therefore, cause the problem of war crisis which therefore spread to all parts of the country. The crisis of war due to religion difference also resulted in an economic crisis because of the economic growth and development decline, therefore leading to inflation in the country. Inflation in the country of Syria due to the bad financial situation, therefore, cause prices of all human wants and needs to increase drastically. The increase in all food items and other human wants and needs to result in the economic crises problem because they were a lot of money chasing few elements in the market. Few issues in the country due to drought made people fight for the little available resources in the country of Syria. It I s important to understand that all those crises were related or cause by religion war between two dominant religions of Catholic and Protestant. 

The country of Syria also faces a famine of the economic crisis which was due to the shortages of food products in the market. The main cause of the economic crisis in Syria was because of severe shortages of agricultural products which were as a result of lack of rain and also due to the poor government strategy to implement the use of irrigation facilities by farmers in Syria so as to supplement frequent shortages of rain in most parts of the country. When prices of food products go up, farmers and intermediaries only benefit, but the significant portion of the residents who are consumers suffer a lot due to lack of money to purchase those commodities. Economic crisis often results in real war because people will resort to war if they lack products to consume or due to limited available resources in the country.

Also, the situation of famine arises in Syria due to inequitable distribution of resources.  Most of the public resources were in the hands of few people which made the rest of the residents to be bitter, and they decide to resort to fighting for the public resources by war (Price and Megan, 67). The majority of the population in Syria are the low-class meaning to afford a meal in a day was a challenge for them.  Similarly, lack of proper government policies to be put in place so as to ensure equal distribution of resources to all parts of the country, therefore, play a significant role which results to a crisis of war. Oil mining natural resources in Syria also was another problem which situation war crisis. Opposition and the government officials, therefore, started the fight to own or to have the shares of the oil mining activities in the country. Also, external foreign influences were another cause of the crisis of war (Kaarbo et al., 123). Foreign foreigners intervene in various activities of the government of Syria so as to control oil mining product in the country, but the local oppose foreigners’ indirect intention of controlling their natural resources such as oil in their country.

South Sudan

The South Sudan is among developing nations although with oil and petroleum products. The country faces a situation of famine which led to human suffering and death. The following are some of the problems which have resulted in country’s current crisis. 

First, the situation of famine in the nation is due to the geographical location in arid and semi-arid areas in which it receives little rainfall throughout the year. Due to the limited rainfall, the government does not involve in the food production.  However, from the historical perspective, agriculture is the backbone of food security of which is carried out within the area of sufficient rain. Due to such situation, the nation has had the crisis of hunger and famine.

Second, the situation of famine in Southern Sudan is due to with internal wriggling due to individual interest in the leadership dominance (Fouad et al. 234).  The dual group based on clans and community differences have generated internal conflicts which have left several families homeless and displaced. Such situation has made most of Sudanese to flee their land and becomes refugees to other nations. 

  Third, the situation of famine is due to poor leadership who do not care about well being of their citizens. They misuse limited available resources as they lack the essence of transparency and accountability. In such condition, the nation is having financial crisis making most of the sectors being unable to meet the requirement of economic stability of the country. 

Fourth, the situation of famine is due to having natural resources of oil and petroleum products; there is an influence of external forces in the country’s crisis (Kingsley and Breanna, 76). The United States of America has their roots in the nation purposely to end the war but with a hidden a gander as it funds one side of the war making the war to prolong as it benefits from the exportation of the resource. Therefore, most of the western nations are to be blamed for the problems affecting the social, economic and political well-being of the Southern Sudan. 

However, due to poor government policies, the country has reduced strategies to eliminate some of the humans made crisis such as hunger and corruption. The nation could have strategized and prioritized its policies such that irrigation is given more attention to increasing more food hence eliminating hunger (Mann et al. 421). Also, the government should remove all kinds of corruption among the top leadership of the country who are believed to be contributing heavily to corruption. 

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