Somalia: For Nation's Children, There Is No Safe Place

12 March 2012
opinion

When I met Xarid M. (not his real name) in Kenya in June 2011, he told me that fighters from al-Shabaab, the main Islamist armed group in Somalia, came to his school compound at noon one day and ordered him and other students to stay inside the classrooms.

The fighters set-up a rocket launcher and, for two hours, fired rockets at territory controlled by the government and African Union forces.

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