SOMALIA: Music icon K'Naan returns home at last

  1. Posted on Friday 26 August 2011 - 09:36
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    Abdirashid Abdi Diis, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
    Somali prominent musician, Keynan Abdi Warsame, paid a visit on Sunday to the bullet and starvation-ridden capital, Mogadishu, of his motherland country of Somalia for the first time ever in two decades after he fled there due to the 1991 civil war. He is back to support with humanitarian aid.
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    Keynan, a Somali-Canadian hip-hop artist and poet, visited several institutions in the capital including the hospitals and mushroom camps of internally displaced persons in Mogadishu, where he pledged his full support to assist the people.

    He became a world icon with his rousing 2010 FIFA World Cup song ‘Waving Flag’.

    According to local reports, Keynan was mobbed by hundreds of his countrymen as their illustrious son toured Banadir Hospital, where malnourished children are receiving treatment.

    “The situation is not good; many people are hospitalized and malnourished. It touched me a lot,” said Keynan.

    “I came to Mogadishu to see the situation and give whatever donation I have for my people of Somalia,” he added, while waving flag above the heads of the gathering.

    Somalia has been a country of anarchy since 1991 after her central government was toppled in a military coup.

    Much of central and southern regions in the country are currently under rule of Al-Shabba, with an attempt to topple the western–backed government led by Shiekh Sharif Shiekh Ahmed, who is said be a Muslim moderate.

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