WHERE IS SOMALIA NOW?

Somali Reconciliation & Restoration Council (SRRC)

• A government comprised of the 5 main warlord groups in Somalia

• Hussein Aidid, the son of Mohammed Aidid, is one of the main members

• Inability to create a central gov’t so regional gov’t formed

• Government that is said to be “in control” in Somalia

• Also comprised of clans/tribes

Transitional National Gov’t

Transitional National Gov’t• Not very successful in ruling

• There has been civil war in Somalia and territory that should be under their control is not

• None of the regional gov’ts recognized it as official

Transitional National Gov’t (TNG)

• Strongly opposed by Hussein Aidid and other members of the Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC)

• TNG only lasted until Aug. 2003

Transitional National Assembly• In Aug. 2004 a 275-member transitional

parliament was inaugurated for a five-year term

• Selected President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed

• Ruled out of Kenya – Somalia too violent

Transitional National Assembly• 2006 – worst outbreak of

violence in 10 yrs

• Islamist militias – Somali Islamist Court Council (SICC) battled warlords

• Ethiopia sent troops to stabilize

Transitional National Assembly• Al-Shabab, militant wing of

SICC, allied itself w/al-Qaeda

• Waged war against TNA

• Controls almost all of southern Somalia

• Ethiopia has withdrawn troops

Al-Shabab• Formally declared allegiance with

al-Qaeda in Feb. 2010

• Bombed restaurant in Uganda in July 2010 – people watching the World Cup

• Message to countries who have sent troops to support TNA

SOMALI PIRATES – way to earn a living for many fishermen or ex-

militiamen of warlords