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Somalia : the missed opportunities

By 1992, starvation, disease, and death had engulfed Somalia and its people. As disaster befell the country, the international community proved unwilling or unable to provide the humanitarian and peacekeeping assistance that was desperately needed. The result, contends Mohamed Sahnoun, UN special representative to Somalia in 1992, was the continued spread of a tragedy that had already reached unthinkable proportions

Print Book, English, 1994
United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington, D.C., 1994