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Somalia: Courts in charge

Sally Healy, August 2006

The World Today, Volume 62, Number 8/9

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Somalia has been without a government for fif teen years, now Islamist forces have expelled the new warlords from the capital, Mogadishu. Can the new authorities reach out to other groups and form the hub of a more legitimate, political dispensation? Or does this mark the deepening of divisions, ushering in renewed conflict that could become dangerously internationalised?