The “road map” also demands refreshed efforts ... the move would be “the end of the long-running crisis in Somalia”. The country is plagued by famine in six of the eight regions in its ...

— -- Located on the east coast of Africa, in what geographers call the Horn of Africa, Somalia has played an important role in what experts have called the U.S. policy of "casualty aversion ...

Somalia collapsed into anarchy following the overthrow of the military regime of President Siad Barre in 1991. As rival warlords tore the country apart into clan-based fiefdoms, an internationally ...