The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in ...

Surviving Black Hawk Down tells the famous story of the Battle of Mogadishu, but it only scratches the surface of one of its ...

1, 2013 CIVIL SOCIETY IN MAKING: Challenges of t ... Verhoeven, H 2009, ‘The self-fulfilling prophecy of failed states: Somalia, state collapse and the Global war on terror’, Journal of Eastern ...

However, if the U.S. were not an active player in the civil war, it would not be in Al-Shabaab’s interest to attack U.S. interests abroad. Beyond terrorism, Somalia is of little strategic value.

In 1960, both sides became independent and became the Somali Republic. Then the civil war occurred in 1991, and Somaliland seceded in that year from Somalia. Although Somaliland has functioned as ...

The territory declared independence 33 years ago after Somalia descended into civil war - and in many ways has functioned as a de facto nation-state ever since. "Donald is our saviour. He is a ...