Somalia: Disarmament, Compulsory for a Gun Toting Country At a Crossroads

The UN Security Council in a surprisingly unanimous vote opted for a partial lift of the 21 year old -virtually non-existent - arms embargo that dawned on Somalia after the breakout of civil war. Since then, a steady of flow of small arms has been funnelled into the conflict prone country despite the Security Council having knowledge of the proliferation of small arms.

Knowing that, will that stop the conflict in the war torn country - who was able to shrewdly import small arms during the embargo - which now has been given the green-light to freely import?

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