Hits and misses in Somalia’s four-year quest for stability

A street in Mogadishu, Somalia.[Standard]

It is exactly 30 years since Somalia extricated itself from the dictatorial rule of Siad Barre in a bloody civil war. Sadly, the Horn of Africa country remains in the throes of instability punctuated by mutating conflict – from state collapse in post-Barre’s autocratic regime, warlordism, clan factionalism, to an ideological conflict and Al Shabaab terrorism.