Quotes of: Somalia Keyword

I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name.

Hawa Abdi

I couldn't be happier teaming up to make the feature with a company as innovative as VICE. There is so much the world doesn't know about piracy in Somalia and the people involved, and I'm excited to be telling a story of piracy in Somalia from a diff...

Cutter Hodierne

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.

Amanda Lindhout

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

Amanda Lindhout

Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.

Amanda Lindhout

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

Amanda Lindhout

All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.

Mo Ibrahim

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

Michael Palin

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

Amanda Lindhout

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

Hawa Abdi

The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia.

Steven Cojocaru

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

William Hague

I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.

Barkhad Abdi

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

William Hague

The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.

Richard Engel

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

Amanda Lindhout

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

Richard Leakey

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

George Ayittey

Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant to last only ten days.

Amanda Lindhout

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

K'naan

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali