Somali Americans Reflect on One of the Most Dangerous Countries in the World for Christians

Published on July 16, 2024

IRVINE, CALIF.—It was while taking an exam with her fellow elementary school students that Nasri Mohamad, now 44, heard the sounds of gunfire that started the Somali Civil War that led to the eventual collapse of the East African nation in 1991. “My school was in the Somali capital city of Mogadishu at the time,” Ms. Mohamad told The Epoch Times. “The government troops of then-Somali President Siad Barre tried to fight back against the rebel Islamic rebel factions, but they would soon disperse after he fled south to neighboring Kenya.” Upon the national military and government collapse, Somalia descended into “complete chaos,” she said, as rival rebel factions fought tirelessly for control, eventually fighting for food supplies and creating a famine for Somalis already struggling to survive....

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