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World Service,26 Jan 2011,10 mins

Conflict in Somalia

Witness History

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After Siad Barre was driven from power by clan militias in Somalia, the country fell into chaos. It has not known peace since then and hundreds of thousands of people have died in the fighting, or from starvation. Twenty years on, Somalia still has no central government.

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