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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_2561.jpg450600Ali Isha used to work on a large family farm in Somalia, growing maize, rice, sweet potatoes, beans, bananas, onions, tobacco and livestock. Until the soldiers came. They took the cows and the corn and everything else. The large food stocks on Somali Bantu farms had become valuable as war blew apart civil society. Rogue militias would rape and murder farming families as they robbed them. Isha's fled into the woods, cooking at night so the smoke wouldn't give them away.