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Somalia remains one of the chaotic nations in the world where peace seems to hide its face away from the African nation. With the Islamist rebels gaining control of the country, I wonder how the crisis is being handled by its government? When will the.

According to The Independent's Steve Bloomfield, Somalia is the world's forgotten catastrophe. The following quotation from Mr. Bloomfield's article reveals the sheer magnitude of the east African country's humanitarian and political devastation....

Despite of widespread poverty and illiteracy African countries are more interested in battles and genocides. If there is possibility of an Islamist group acquiring political power in a country its non-Islamic neighbour will be on the tenterhooks. The..

The civil war in the African horn seems to be having no end in sight. When, international effort led by Ethiopian forces drove away Islamic militants out of the capital, Mogadishu in early 2007, some positive hope had developed. However the last few..

Somalia has always been one of the most unstable countries in Africa. But the present humanitarian crisis, according to many, rivals that in Darfur. What caused it? The brief takeover of the country by the Islamists [Union of Islamic Courts] in...

The United Nations might be very concerned about the situation in Somalia but the world organisation is partly responsible for what is happening in the streets of Mogadishu and other places across the impoverished and war-ravaged country. Since the early.

Somalia's problems are getting worse day by day and there is a widespread belief that the war-ravaged country in the Horn of Africa would not be able to withstand the humanitarian catastrophe that is unfolding in front of the civilized world. Since...

The unending civil disorder in Somalia is having a profound effect on its vulnerable population, particularly innocent children who have to bear the brunt of a chronic crisis. According to international counselors and psychologists, the war has...

For long, the Horn of Africa has remained a notorious region. A considerable fraction of the region is desert, but that hardly repels today's modernized terrorists. On the contrary, its isolation and the internal problems that nations in the region...

With no resolution in sight to tackle the Darfur crisis, the African continent has been hit by a series of new damning reports regarding the political situation in Somalia and the increased rates of piracy in the waters of Nigeria and...