July 5, 2010
Jeffrey Gettleman Calls Somalia the “most dangerous place in the world.”
The East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross that the country — where violent rebels fight for control and wreak havoc in villages nationwide — is just as hopeless as it was in 1991, when the central government collapsed. “There’s no green zone. There’s no one part of Somalia that’s safe,” Gettleman says. “That’s the problem. In some of these other countries like Iraq or Afghanistan, where I’ve worked, there are conflict areas, there are lawless areas, but there’s one part of the country that is somewhat stable, where if you needed help, you could get it. In Somalia, that doesn’t really exist.”
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