Somalia’s Welcome Warlord
For years, residents of this sugarcane-farming town watched as their lives were torn apart by Somalia’s descent into anarchy. Looters in the 1990s burned the mammoth sugar factory, which once provided 1,500 jobs, and peddled the remains as scrap metal. Irrigation canal gates along the muddy Shabelle River rusted shut, flooding thousands of acres of crops and desiccating thousands more. Full Story