ocr: Somalia is no longer the undividedrepublic it was under its dictator, President Siad Barre. Civil war started int the north in the 1980s and spread as other opposition groups took up arms against his regime. - He eventually fled the capital in early 1991.The subsequent civil war in the south and the self- proclaimed independence ofSomaliland in the north in May that year have meant that the unitary state has effectively ceasedto exist. In spite ofUN intervention led by the USA, southern Somalia is almost entirely in the grip of warring clan tactions and opportunist warlords. Chief among them a ...
