My Cousin's Exodus from Somalia

Life is full of ups and downs, far beyond our control. When the situation forces them to do something they do not want, people will react differently. When things do not happen in their own way, some people try to fight or fight. Other people become stronger and have the power to pass through the harsh environment until they reach what they truly want. Either way, it is important to have a positive attitude that can truly save your life. My cousin is an educated person. His father broke Somalia's rich before the end of the civil war and sent him to Italy for study.

My parents often like Somalia before the war and they have the right to claim Somalia. They talked about the busy streets of Xamar with the people, went to the theater with friends, awoke at the dawn, and went to sleep under the starry sky. A part of me always thinks that it is my house; Mogadishu, Somalia, around 1980

Photographer Nichole Sobecki and author Laura Heaton have been spending years documenting a part of Somalia. Somalia has been destroyed by climate change in more than 25 years of conflict. Sobecki says, "In one generation, a part of Somalia has changed from semi-arid to desert, encouraging conflict and putting the world's most resilient community in danger." This archive contains about 10,000 pictures of Somali landscape hidden in the English countryside attic, not seen before. These pictures are the work of the Cambridge University ecologist Dr. Murray Watson, visited a jungle plane and Land Rover for the only land survey in the country from the 1970s to the 1980s. In 2008, Dr. Watson was kidnapped in southern Somalia and has not been seen since then.

Somalia is a country in Horn in East Africa. It borders the Gulf of Aden in the north, the Indian Ocean in the east and the southeast, Kenya in the southwest, Ethiopia in the west, and Djibouti in the northwest. The area of ​​Somalia is about four times that of Minnesota, or slightly smaller than Texas. The capital is Mogadishu. The population of Somalia is mainly rural. Nearly 80% of the population are livestock farmers, households of farmers, farmers and herds. Except that a small number of Somalians depend on fishing, the remaining population is the city. The main towns of Somalia are Mogadishu (capital city), Hargheisa, Bra, Belvera, Bosasso, Marca, Brava, Bydoa and Kismayo. In the past ... Read more