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2010.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Somalia's chronic governance and security problems started in 1991, when strongman President Mohammed Siad Barre was overthrown in a civil war. Competing clans then commandeered weapons supplied to his government alternately by the Soviets and the Americans during the Cold War, and proceeded to carve the country up into armed clan fiefdoms without central authority. Then came the famine that an ineffectual United Nations mission was unable to address, prompting the United States to lead an international military intervention in December 1992 with the relatively narrow intention of facilitating humanitarian relief, though in the grander service of a 'new world order'.
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