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Somalia One Year On: Broken City

Sally Healy, January 2008

The World Today, Volume 64, Number 1

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Mogadishu is a broken city on the verge of humanitarian catastrophe. The international community's set piece strategy - intervention, the establishment of a government, a peacekeeping force, and stabilisation - is failing to deliver peace and stability in Somalia. At the heart of any new approach should be an early exit for the Ethiopian forces and a Somali-led process of political reconciliation.