I am another Yusuf and I'm not Somalian.

If the Somalis who have posted here are indicative of Somalis in general, then they are in dire need of our prayers and Islamic Da'wa. I have many Somali friends in the U.S. and in Hadramout and I'm sure they would be sickened by the things I've read here. Allah says in the Qur'an, 49:13:

O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.

Dadow waxaan idinka abuuray lab iyo dhaddig, waxaana idinka yeellay shucuub iyo qabiilooyin si aad isu aqoonsataan, Ruuxase ugu sharaf badan Eebe agtiisa waa ka idiinku dhawrsasho badan, Eebana wax walba waa ogyahay,

This is the message from our Lord. Reject it to your own peril. May Allah guide you and us.

How ironic. I'm actually having fufu tonight.

Somalis need help.

Worse than Congo, Sudan, South Sudan, Chad, Yemen, and Afghanistan, Somalia is the most failed state in the world, according to the annual ranking by Foreign Policy and The Global Fund For Peace. No wonder it has topped the list of the most failed states every year since 2008.
http://www.businessinsider.com/somalia-is-the-most-failed-state-on-earth-2013-7?op=1

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/somalia-is-the-most-failed-state-on-earth-2013-7?op=1#ixzz2fJWMWMR3

http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/where-we-work/africa/somalia

http://www.unicef.org/somalia/

http://www.wfp.org/countries/somalia

http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e483ad6.html

http://www.rescue.org/where/somalia

http://www.irusa.org/countries/somalia/

http://ajws.org/who_we_are/news/archives/features/somalia_on_the_edge.html

• About 43% of the Somali populations live in extreme poverty, on less than USD 1 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) per day (UNDP/World Bank Socioeconomic Survey, 2002).
• 73% of the population lives on less than USD 2 a day. (UNDP/World Bank Socioeconomic Survey, 2002).
• The prevalence of underweight children under five years of age has increased dramatically over the years, from 18% in 1997, to 26% in 1999, to 36.5% in 2006. The prevalence of underweight children under five years of age and acute malnourishment tends to be higher for male children (Source: UN Statistics Division (UNSD), UNICEF Multi-Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2006)
• Somalia has had stunting rates consistently above 20%, at serious/acute levels according to WHO classifications. Stunting is a significant indicator for the endemic poverty and chronic hunger in Somalia and it afflicts 21.1% of Somalia’s children according to most recent national median stunting rates. Unfortunately, 1 in 5 children stunted in Somalia will not be able to reach their full development potential (Source: FSNAU, 2010).
• 71% of Somalia’s population is undernourished, significantly more than the average levels in Arab and other least developed countries (Source: UNSD 2003)
• The employment-to-population ratio for Somalia stood at 52.6% (Source: KilmNet,ILO, 2010)
• The under-five mortality rate (U5MR) reached its highest in South-Central with 231 deaths per 1,000 live births and its lowest in Somaliland with 188, and 225 in Puntland in 1999 (Source: UNSD, UNICEF MICS 2000 and 2006).
• The U5MR was slightly lower in urban areas at 134, compared to 136 in rural and nomadic areas (Source: MICS 2000 and 2006).
• The infant mortality rate is defined as the number of infants who die before reaching one year old for each 1000 live births. This rate has decreased from 152 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 86 deaths per 1000 live births in 2006 (Source: UNDS, MICS 2000 and 2006).
• The level of maternal mortality in Somalia, which is extremely high and on the rise, has been the highest worldwide, at 1200 per 100,000 live births in 2008. (Source: UNSD, MICS).
• In Somalia the vast majority of childbirths (55.9%) take place with the help of Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA). Conversely, only 3.4% of deliveries are handled by medical doctors, 9.4% are assisted by family members, and 25.4% are done with the help of nurses and midwives.
• Half of the births that take place in urban areas are attended by skilled health personnel, while the figure is as low as 10% in nomadic populations.
• The percentage of current contraception use among married women (15-49 years old) in Somalia is no more than 15%. In addition, use of modern contraception methods is even much lower (1.2%) (source: UNDP-RCC, estimates from MICS 2006 files)
• Antenatal care coverage, an indicator of access and use of health care during pregnancy, is very low, at 31.6% in 2006 (Source: MICS 2006).