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07/06/2009

Fighting in Somalia

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What lies behind the seemingly endless fighting in Somalia?

There's been an explosion of violence in the Somali capital Mogadishu over the last month.  Dozens of people have been killed, and seventy-thousand people have fled the city.   But Somalia has been in chaos for twenty years, despite numerous attempts to sort it out.  Why do things only seem to get worse?    Mary Harper examines the roots of the Somali problem:

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