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Somalia has Internally Worsened since 1960s
In the summer of 1992, the emerging famine in Somalia seemed incomprehensible. The Seattle Times reported that since 1991 civil war, an estimated 100,000 people had perished. Of that number, approximately 45,000 Somalis died of starvation and related diseases in seven months (Johnston 2). This was Somalia’s despairing condition in the summer and late fall of 1992 (Johnston 11). Somalia has been in conflict and crisis since the 1970s as a result of starvation, anarchy, and feuds between clans.
Many scholars ask whether Somalia will be consumed by its own problems or if it will be able to unravel itself from the chaos that surrounds it and forge a new and strange nation as it enters the twenty-first century. Forty-four years after independence, Somalia should have been a country at peace with itself. But it is not. Still bleeding from wounds inflicted by the civil war of 1991, it has effectively split into several mini-states and......

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