Somalia

In the absence of central government control over most of its territory since the 1991 Civil War, Somalia is consistently ranked as the world’s number one failed state.

GCCT members from Somalia:

• CDR Somalia
• Somali Observatory of Conflict and Violence Prevention

A malnourished child waits for emergency medical assistance from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an active regional peacekeeping mission operated by the African Union with the approval of the United Nations. Somalia is the country worst affected by a severe drought that has ravaged large swaths of the Horn of Africa, leaving an estimated 11 million people in need of humanitarian assistance (photography courtesy of United Nations Photo, published under a Creative Commons License).