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Somalia: Tangled Ties of the Past Shaped U.S.-Somali Relations
Africa News Service, 3 January 1993
Late last year, as Somalia plunged deeper into violence, human rights and relief organizations raised a cry of alarm in Washington. "We made a concerted effort to get the… Read more »
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Somalia: Somalia Journal: Gun-toting Taxis and Wartime Luxury
Africa News Service, 3 January 1993
Seeing news programs before arriving in Somalia gives the impression that Mogadishu has become a calm city. But from the point of view of the aid agencies, not as much has changed… Read more »
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Somalia: A Nation of Poets
Africa News Service, 3 January 1993
Americans know Somalia as a land of gaunt children and marauding gunmen. But for centuries, those familiar with the wedge-shaped piece of land jutting into the Indian Ocean have… Read more »
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Somalia: Saving Somalia Without The Somalis
Africa News Service, 3 January 1993
For Somalis committed to peace and reconciliation in their country, the initial phases of "Operation Restore Hope" has had precisely the opposite effect. Read more »
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Somalia: Somalia's Silent Sufferers
Africa News Service, 3 January 1993
The Digil and the Rahanwayn Somali clans comprise roughly 30% to 35% of the Somali population and are two of the six major clan families. These two groups are socio-culturally and… Read more »
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Somalia: Dictators and Warlords Are a Modern Invention
Africa News Service, 3 January 1993
As the Marines and the Army of the United States move deeper into Somalia to carry out their first humanitarian campaign, we need to look forward and contemplate the restoration of… Read more »
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East Africa: How the U.S. Can Support Peace and Democracy in the Horn of Africa
Africa News Service, 3 January 1993
An Appeal to the New Clinton Administration from U.S. Non-Governmental Organizations Read more »
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Somalia: Declaration by Somali Political Movements and Traditional Community Leaders
Africa News Service, 3 January 1993
A Statement Issued in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on December 4, 1992 Read more »
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Somalia: Relief, Reconciliation, Reconstruction in Somalia
Africa News Service, 3 January 1993
Views of Prominent Somalis - A Special Reprint from the United States Institute for Peace Read more »
Somalia - Survey of a Crisis [1993]
One quarter of Somalia's children died while the world looked the other way -- and the United States held a presidential vote -- then "Operation Hope" was launched. This Special Report was produced in 1993 by AFRICA NEWS, the periodical published by Africa News Service between 1973 and 1993.
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Overlooking Africa - a survey of news decision-makers and analysis of the "why's" and "how's" of Africa reporting. A Special Report produced by Africa News Service in December ... Read more »
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Liberia: Liberia: A Casualty of the Cold War's End
Africa News Service, 1 July 1995
Half a decade ago, with the Berlin Wall coming down and the Soviet Union entering its final days, a small-scale conflict in West Africa quietly put post-Cold War U.S. foreign… Read more »
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Africa: National Security Review 30: American Policy Toward Africa in the 1990s-Key Findings
Africa News Service, 3 January 1993
The Bush administration has prepared a classified presidential directive that may shape the initial Africa policy of the new Clinton team. Prompted by the crisis in Somalia and a… Read more »
