US air bombing ramps up over Somalia, as population deals with coronavirus spread Archived Message Posted by margo on April 26, 2020, 3:50 pm U.S. Airstrikes Hit All-Time High as Coronavirus Spreads in Somalia Nick Turse The Intercept / April 22 2020-- IN THE first four months of this year, U.S. Africa Command has conducted more airstrikes in Somalia than it did during all of Barack Obama’s eight years in office. The massive escalation of America’s undeclared war in Somalia comes as U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has repeatedly appealed for a global ceasefire amid the Covid-19 pandemic. “There should be only one fight in our world today, our shared battle against Covid-19,” he reiterated on April 3. “We must mobilize every ounce of energy to defeat it.” [...] Since the beginning of the year, AFRICOM has announced 39 airstrikes in Somalia. The command announced a total of 36 such attacks from 2009 to 2017, under Obama, peaking in 2016 with 19 declared airstrikes. Last year, under President Trump, the US conducted 63 air attacks in Somalia, the most ever in a single year...../ continues Corona Virus: Somali Airstrikes https://theintercept.com/2020/04/22/coronavirus-somalia-airstrikes/?fbclid=IwAR1TiwW-Kwj_ceTaUFt3KekbwUwnmXrdedf7HVHUZyPG2gb62iVZO7v6wTE Message Thread: US air bombing ramps up over Somalia, as population deals with coronavirus spread - margo April 26, 2020, 3:50 pm Evil barstewards! (nm) - Ed April 26, 2020, 3:52 pm   Searching