Peter S. Goodman
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 10 Jun
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These had devastated the food supply.
You've got armed conflict.
And then you've got these dramatic cuts to the aid system before this war.
Mm-hmm.
So Somalia imports something like 70 percent of its food and 90 percent of its energy.
And because so much shipping has been disrupted by the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz and to a lesser extent, the Red Sea, you've got several weeks of delays getting supplies into ports in the Horn of Africa.
And so the price of food and fuel has more than doubled since the war started.
Right.
So in Mogadishu, which is the capital of Somalia, I went to a fish market and there were these guys wielding machetes to hack sharks and tuna into steaks.
I talked to a woman who was running a stand there, Fatou Manour, and she was telling me that wholesale prices have gone up because the fishing boats can't afford to buy as much diesel as they used to, which means they can't go out to the deeper waters where the biggest fish are.
They're staying closed.
closer to the shore, which is depleting the catch, which is limiting the supply of fish.
So she has to pay more.
And as a result, she has to charge her customers more.
So her sales are down half.
And she's actually worried about going bankrupt as a result of this.
Yeah, I mean, I talked to I don't even know how many families who said, we don't know where our next meal is coming from.
We're lucky if we can feed our children one meal a day.
Lots of families are now subsisting on, you know, sorghum porridge with weeds that they're finding by riverbanks.
And the drought is even eliminating that.
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