The Mediterranean Sea has become a death valley for thousands of migrants desperate to enter Europe. On Friday a boat containing 200 migrants capsized off the coast of Italy, killing 34. The Friday before, more than 300 migrants drowned near the Italian Island of Lampedusa. This unprecedented humanitarian crisis can be directly linked to the …
Many NPR listeners are familiar with the TED Radio Hour, which features talks with innovators from across disciplines. This hour we'll talk to TED's national host, and the founder of TEDx Columbus, Cap City's local TED spinoff, about their upcoming conference. We'll also hear from two featured speakers who will share the latest ideas in …
This talk was presented at an official TED conference For the young and unemployed in the world's big cities, dreams of opportunity and wealth do come true but too often because they're heavily recruited by terrorist groups and other violent organizations. Human rights advocate Mohamed Ali draws on stories from his native Mogadishu to make …
Last week in Mogadishu, unidentified gunmen attacked Ann-Margarethe Livh, a Swedish diplomat, by a major intersection, killing her Somali translator and driver and leaving her seriously wounded. This was the latest in a series of attacks in the city that have targeted foreigners and high profile Somali leaders. A bomb was recently placed in the …
Mogadishu – One of my earliest childhood memories is of swimming in a small gully near my grandmother’s home in Yaaq Bari Wayne, a dusty collection of tin-roofed adobe buildings huddled together in the plains of southern Somalia’s Bay region. After the Gu rains, the gully became a deep triangular cleft cut into the ground, …