'Somalis will become extinct' or is it?

[Paragon]

'Somalis will become extinct'

26/06/2008 22:07 - (SA)

 

Mogadishu - Conflict in Somalia has killed 2 136 civilians so far this year, bringing the death toll since an Islamist-led insurgency began in early 2007 to 8 636, a local human rights group said on Thursday.

 

The Mogadishu-based Elman Peace and Human Rights Organisation said it had also recorded 11 790 civilian injuries since the start of last year, when rebels began attacking the Somali government and its Ethiopian military allies.

 

"If the international community does not intervene to stop the massacre in the country, Somalis will soon become extinct," the group's chairperson, Sudan Ali Ahmed, told Reuters.

 

As well as civilian deaths, hundreds of fighters on both sides have also died, locals say.

 

The insurgency - the latest in a cycle of conflict since the 1991 fall of a military dictator - has compounded the effects of drought and poverty to create what aid workers call one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.

 

'The disaster is happening now'

 

"Somalia is no longer on the verge of catastrophe, the disaster is happening now," Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) director of operations Bruno Jochum told a Nairobi press conference in the latest international warning.

 

The United Nations says one million Somalis - out of a total population of about nine million - are living as internal refugees in the Horn of Africa nation.

 

But the Elman rights group, in figures given to Reuters, put that number at 1.9 million. Tens of thousands of Somalis have also fled to neighbouring countries.

 

The governments of Ethiopia and Somalia dispute the numbers of dead and displaced, saying rights groups are accepting Islamist "propaganda" and exaggerating the situation.

 

Mogadishu, the epicentre of the conflict, has seen an upsurge in fighting since a UN-brokered peace agreement at the start of this month. Hardline Islamists rejected the pact, signed by the Somali government and some opposition members.

 

In the latest violence on Thursday, Islamists killed nine policemen in Mogadishu after tricking them into a meeting, and shot dead two government soldiers in a central village, Rebay, locals and authorities said.

 

Source: news24

[Che -Guevara]

Somalis in spite of their self destructive nature will survive through this. They are very resilient people. In time , we should bounce back from this abyss. If anything, I believe Ethiopia will be the one that go extinct considering the level of poverty, oppression and ethnic tensions that will eventually erupt.

[Koora-Tuunshe]

We need Peace. Don't Advocate for War.

 

You are urging to fight against the Allied Powers and their foreign policy to contain Extremism. We don't need Insurgency or ARABISM. We're already reeling of our own share of troubles.

 

We need great Leaders, not mindless Warmongers.

[RedSea]

"foreing policy' that killed it. that is exactly what it is though, a foregin policy. Somalia wants caring leadership not warlords or thugs who kill for living.

 

Paragon,

 

No saaxib. somali dad dhamaanaya maaha laakin experience ayey unoqonaysa. Wadanka kastaba soomar dhibaato, kabacdinia waxay unqotaaa history aay kaga waramaan oo ay ku dhigaan schooladooda si aanay udhicin markale.

 

When somalis finally get over the hump , they will be better off than before and will not make the same mistakes they've made in their history.

 

America had bloody slavery, bloody civil wars, The great depression, two world wars etc...and today they are the richest and the force to reckon with in this world. Though they have misused their powers.

[Som@li]

If Somalis continue on the same path of the last 20 years, No doubt,they will dissapear on the face of the earth.

[Samafal]

Paragon

For matter of preventing this looming calamity,

every Somali male that reached puberty should marry four wives and fast before the age of 35, otherwise you risk this:

 

Male biological clock 'ticks too'

Scientists say they have found more evidence that men as well as women have biological clocks and that they start to tick in their mid-30s.

 

A French study of over 12,200 couples having fertility treatment suggests the chance of a successful pregnancy falls when the man is aged over 35.

 

It adds that the chance is significantly lower if he is over 40.

 

Previous studies have shown that both natural and assisted conception is more difficult if the man is over 40.

 

The researchers told a European reproductive health conference that it was likely the problems were caused by DNA damage in sperm.

 

Miscarriage risk

 

The researchers studied couples who had sought treatment for infertility at the Eylau Centre for Assisted Reproduction in Paris between January 2002 and December 2006.

 

All were given intrauterine inseminations (IUI), also known as artificial insemination, where sperm is inserted into the womb when the woman is ovulating.

 

It is given to couples where the woman has no fertility problems and is less invasive than IVF.

 

The men's sperm were examined for quantity, their ability to move and swim and their size and shape.

 

Rates of pregnancy, miscarriage and births were recorded.

 

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In addition, the researchers analysed detailed data on the pregnancies, which allowed them to pinpoint factors associated with the man and the woman.

 

As expected, maternal age had an effect in women over 35, who had a significantly higher chance of miscarriage and lower rate of pregnancy.

 

But the team also found that, where the father was in his late 30s, miscarriages were more common than if the man was younger.

 

And if a man was over 40, the chances of a successful pregnancy were even lower.

 

For those couples, a third of pregnancies ended in miscarriage and only 10% of treatments resulted in pregnancies.

 

'Growing evidence'

 

Dr Stephanie Belloc, who presented the work to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) conference in Barcelona, said: "This research has important implications for couples wanting to start a family."

 

She said such couples should be offered IVF (where an egg is fertilised in a lab dish), and where the outer membrane of the egg seems to block sperm with DNA damage, and ICSI (where a sperm is injected directly into an egg), where the best sperm can be selected for use.

 

"These methods, although not in themselves a guarantee of success, may help couples where the man is older to achieve a pregnancy more quickly, and also reduce the risk of miscarriage," she added.

 

Dr Allan Pacey, a fertility expert at Sheffield University and secretary of the British Fertility Society, said: "There is growing evidence from a number of studies to show that men are not totally immune from reproductive ageing

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[Paragon]

^If you want a bah yar, sxb why not be frank about it?