Somalia: Somalia's Aid Paradox - Saving Lives, Sustaining Dependency

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- For more than three decades, international aid has been an indispensable lifeline for Somalia. It has helped prevent humanitarian collapse, funded essential health and education services, and sustained civil-society organizations through cycles of conflict, drought, and displacement. Those contributions are real and should never be minimized. Yet prolonged reliance on external assistance raises a challenging political-economy question: can a humanitarian and development apparatus designed for immediate