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Ahmed’s storyREFUGEE SINCE 1991
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I was born in Kismaayo, a port city in sourthern Somalia in mid 80s
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1977: USSR leaves Somalia to be allied to Ethiopian Marxist regime USA replaces USSR, gives Somalia $600 million from 1977-1985
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• 1988-1989: Soviet funded Opposition movements fight Somali government
• 1988: Ronal Regan Administration ends military aid to Somalia, Somalia turns to IMF, World Bank for loans
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• 1991: opposition groups overthrow the military government, law and order breaks down
http://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/sub-saharan-africa-region/somaliasomaliland-1960-present/
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• In 1992 more them million Somalis fled the country
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/kenya-unhcr-out-somalis-out/
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1997: Somali-Ethiopian war
http://adst.org/2015/06/somalia-from-great-hope-to-failed-state/
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Since 1991, I spent 15 years in the Dadaab refugee camp and came to the US in 2006.
http://www.msf.org/article/humanitarian-aid-must-be-prioritised-dadaab-camps-despite-return-refugees-somalia
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I was placed in Minnesota. Lived in Chicago and returned to Minnesota.