Somalia is a large coastal country that exists in name only. The Government broke down over twenty years ago after a decade of protracted civil war and is now a series of Warlord fiefdoms and local rulerships.
Without education an entire generation is virtually illeterate, without health care life expectancy has plummeted to the mid thirties. Armed Gangs roam the countryside, pirates haunt the seaways, radicalism is growing apace and the whole show could easily spill over into neighbouring states which are non to secure themselves.
This is a thread dealing with the underlying problems of the country, not any individual symptom, although the piracy has marked the intrusion from private grief into the International Conciousness and prompted the dispatch of Naval task forces from around the world. Indeed here and here alone we see the PLAN, Russian and NATO navies operating in neutral territory and each applying their own strategies to the day to day problems.
None of this though seems to address the underlying problem of a crisis that the International Community is finally waking up to realise has been left to fester far too long.
So to kick off, what can be done to start reversing this situation and who are players; State or otherwise, best placed to do it?
Without education an entire generation is virtually illeterate, without health care life expectancy has plummeted to the mid thirties. Armed Gangs roam the countryside, pirates haunt the seaways, radicalism is growing apace and the whole show could easily spill over into neighbouring states which are non to secure themselves.
This is a thread dealing with the underlying problems of the country, not any individual symptom, although the piracy has marked the intrusion from private grief into the International Conciousness and prompted the dispatch of Naval task forces from around the world. Indeed here and here alone we see the PLAN, Russian and NATO navies operating in neutral territory and each applying their own strategies to the day to day problems.
None of this though seems to address the underlying problem of a crisis that the International Community is finally waking up to realise has been left to fester far too long.
So to kick off, what can be done to start reversing this situation and who are players; State or otherwise, best placed to do it?