African Union Peacekeepers Are Dying From Malnutrition In Somalia

Mission Impossible: Peacekeeping In Somalia -- Chicago Tribune

MOGADISHU, Somalia - -- When a mystery illness swept through the African Union peacekeeping mission here, killing six soldiers and sickening dozens, doctors were stumped.

With help from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, they ruled out swine flu, tropical infection, rat-borne bacteria and even deliberate poisoning, as claimed by Somalia's insurgents.

But the culprit, doctors fear, is just as alarming: beriberi, a vitamin-deficiency disorder typically only seen in famines. Simply put, African Union soldiers appear to have died of a form of malnutrition.

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My Comment: Information Dissemination sums it perfectly .... If the peacekeepers can't get properly fed, what hope does the population have?

The answer is obvious .... none.

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