"Black Hawk Down" may have been a disaster, but the U.S.-led relief effort that preceded this event was not Operation Restore Hope, as it was called, saved tens if not hundreds of thousands of lives.īut one thing no one in the United States is talking about is repeating the country’s actions 20 years ago, when the overthrow of Mohamed Siad Barre’s 21-year military rule and the ensuing civil war prompted a similarly dire famine crisis in southern Somalia. mission in Somalia, I remember the affair differently.
Army soldier* aboard dragged through the city's streets.Īs an advisor to the initial U.S. Black Hawk helicopter shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade over Mogadishu and the body of a U.S. troops were dispatched to smooth the way for aid delivery, and the effort to alleviate the famine is mostly remembered in the United States today for how it ended: a U.S. support during the famine crisis to more than $500 million.īut one thing no one in the United States is talking about is repeating the country's actions 20 years ago, when the overthrow of Mohamed Siad Barre's 21-year military rule and the ensuing civil war prompted a similarly dire famine crisis in southern Somalia. government announced that it was pledging another $105 million to alleviating hunger in the Horn of Africa, bringing total U.S. Since a famine began sweeping the war-torn country in July, tens of thousands of Somalis have died of starvation, and many more have sought refuge elsewhere. This month has seen some of the grimmest news in years out of Somalia, a country that has become shorthand for despair.
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