refugee

1. Ahmed’s story
REFUGEE SINCE 1991

4. I was born in Kismaayo, a port city
in sourthern Somalia in mid 80s

5. 1977: USSR leaves
Somalia to be allied to
Ethiopian Marxist
regime
USA replaces USSR,
gives Somalia $600
million from 1977-
1985

6. • 1988-1989: Soviet funded
Opposition movements
fight Somali government
• 1988: Ronal Regan
Administration ends
military aid to Somalia,
Somalia turns to IMF,
World Bank for loans

7. • 1991: opposition groups overthrow the military
government, law and order breaks down
http://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/sub-saharan-africa-region/somaliasomaliland-1960-present/

8. • In 1992 more them million Somalis fled the country
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/kenya-unhcr-out-somalis-out/

9. 1993: Black Hawk Down

10. 1997: Somali-Ethiopian war
http://adst.org/2015/06/somalia-from-great-hope-to-failed-state/

11. Since 1991, I spent 15 years in the Dadaab
refugee camp and came to the US in 2006.
http://www.msf.org/article/humanitarian-aid-must-be-prioritised-dadaab-camps-despite-return-refugees-somalia

12. I was placed in Minnesota. Lived in Chicago
and returned to Minnesota.