somalia politics

OK, not sure if this aspect of the Somalian piracy issue has been discussed here, but I found some articles and thought I would put them here for some kind of response. The short version is that when the Somalian Government collapsed in 1991, they effectively lost any ability to protect their...

As some of you may have heard - there have been little titters of rumor floating around, nothing important I guess - what we refer to as the Interim Government of Somalia has regained tentative control over much of that country. The thing is, Somalia's government as such is tiny, and its...