Somalia Must Be Helped Stand Again

editorial

The Ugandan public, as indeed all East and Horn of Africa peoples, should be urged to support their leaders who are meeting in Addis Ababa trying to sort out the mess that Somalia has become in the last ten years.

Almost from the moment the regime of Siad Barre was toppled Somalia rapidly descended into a state of unparalleled anarchy with warlords and assorted bandits taking control of pockets of the country. Crime rates soared, children continue to die for lack of something as basic as vaccination and the conventional definition of a nation-State evetually fell away from Somalia's national lexicon.

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