New Statesman-Once and Future State

By Carne Ross

Published in New Statesman, 22 January 2009

Review of Understanding Somalia and Somaliland, by Ioan Lewis: "While the international community and UN have tried futilely to prop up the TFG and thus contributed to the disaster in the rest of Somalia, Somaliland has quietly, and with little outside help, established a working administration based on democratic principles and the beginnings of a growing economy."

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