I have completed my visit to Somalia today with a heavy heart. Thirty years ago, when I first came to work in this country, I could not possibly imagine that the armed conflict, which caused so much pain and devastation, would still drag on three decades later, destroying lives and livelihoods. An entire generation of Somalis have come of age and raised their children without having seen a day of peace.
The Somalia crisis is one of the most protracted in the region and one thing that worries me is that we don't hear about it very often. It seems the world has come to accept this untenable situation, which keeps going from bad to worse, as normal.
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