Can the Somali Crisis Be Contained?,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group, analyses the country’s slide toward war and warns that without vigorous, coordinated action, the stand-off between the fracturing and increasingly misnamed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and its Ethiopian ally on one side, and the Islamic Courts, who have gained control of Mogadishu on the other, will draw in a widening array of state actors, foreign jihadi Islamists and even al-Qaeda. The TFG must broaden its base to include moderate elements of the Islamic Courts and other important Mogadishu-based groups.