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Somalia

Somalia. Hannah Casey and Robbie Scully. http://i.infoplease.com/images/msomalia.gif. What lies at the Root of this conflict?. Collapse of the government in 1991  Country divided among several ethnic clans each with sub-clans

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Somalia

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  1. Somalia Hannah Casey and Robbie Scully http://i.infoplease.com/images/msomalia.gif

  2. What lies at the Root of this conflict? • Collapse of the government in 1991  Country divided among several ethnic clans each with sub-clans • Various clans claimed control of different parts of the country • Islamist militias took control circa 2004-2006 http://www.clingendael.nl/sites/default/files/Somalia%20conflict.jpg

  3. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/somalia_ethnic77.jpg

  4. What form does this conflict take? • Main problem- warfare against clans • Some violence with neighboring clans • Famine http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/5/27/1243436054085/Somalia-civil-war-Islamic-015.jpg http://www.jhsph.edu/sebin/n/n/somalia%20graph.jpg

  5. What is the spatial extent of this conflict? • Eritrea- Allies with the Islamists • Ethiopia- against Islamists • United States- claimed some Islamic and clan leaders were terrorists http://www.subulahanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Horn_081218.gif

  6. How long has there been a conflict? • Since 1991 - collapse of the dictatorship http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images//2008/11/16/20081116105955320734_5.jpg http://geopoliticalmonitor.com/dyn/images/3/2694.jpg

  7. How many people have been affected? In what ways? • 1992- estimated 300,000 people, mostly women and children, died from famine and warfare • Several hundred refugees http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/50959000/gif/_50959475_somali_reguess_464gra.gif

  8. Examples of how this conflict presents itself at a global, regional and local scale. • Global- U.S. involvement. • Regional- Some violence among neighboring countries as well as aid • Local- Famine and warfare  Somali deaths https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTI7PGH1zmIYCw7yp-m-vIjJ8WtHGZyMbqxqfn5XuMfDVBCsB_c

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