Somalia
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| Outdoor school for Somali refugees feeling famine and drought, in Dadaab, Kenya |
Food aid for those affected by the famine: Oxfam East Africa |
Mogadishu - a city torn by war: Mohamed Amin Jibril/IRIN |
Context
Somalia, located in the
Horn of Africa, is a country that is plagued  with political, economic,
developmental and social instability. It is divided into several self-declared
autonomous regions, Somaliland; a self-proclaimed independent state, Puntland
and Galmudug, both of which are autonomous states within Somalia. Without the
existence of a functioning government, a new transitional parliament, the
Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) was set in place in 2004.
Power is regionally divided in Somalia between the following recognized groups;
the TGF; the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS); the Puntland
Administration; the Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama'a Administration and, the Galmudug
Administration. Somalia also has a high presence of powerful Islamist
anti-government groups, the most infamous being Al-Shabab.
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