Reporting in Etsamalia

i've reported from afghanistan, reported from guantonimo bay. I've never reported from samalia. So i don't want to play fake samalia expert. This is not a place most reporters are familiar with. It's very easy for western reporters to set up a narrative of samalia as like a kind of permanent basket case out of like, racism, in ignorance. And that shapes my understandingobot there isn't even a pretence of caring about local conditions in samalia. The fact is that america seas alshabab could never have existed had the united states not backed ethiopia's fateful two thousand six decision to overthrow the aslamic courtsun