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There is no local government infrastructure, no law enforcement or judicial authorities in Somalia.

Pottengal Mukundan

The security institution is the only guarantee to prevent sedition and civil war. Civil war began in Somalia after the collapse of the army and security institutions.

Ala Hosni

He's gone after six weeks, but his story-line sends him off to Somalia and he will eventually come back . . . possibly to All Saints , ... We'll just have to wait and see.

Peter Phelps

There was a sense that there was nothing to learn from Somalia or Haiti or Bosnia.

Seth Jones

Life can be tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid. You think you got problems? Get in my private jet and we'll go to Somalia or Rwanda. I'll drop you off in the middle of Baghdad.

Dave Pelzer

We have pirates, we have militias. This is not even a country or a place with stable structures. It's like working in an earthquake, even though there's no earthquake. Somalia is one of the most complex emergency situations in the world.

Stephanie Savariaud

Under normal conditions, Somalia is one of the poorest and most food insecure countries in the world, and these are not normal conditions. It is a humanitarian crisis - it is a food crisis, a water crisis, a health crisis and a protection crisis.

Nick Haan

All of the humanitarian agencies operating in Somalia have armed guards. We're very uncomfortable with it, but there's very little option to pull out of (the security arrangements).

Colin Mcilreavy

The people who are dragging American bodies (through Somalia) don't look very hungry to the people of Texas.

Phil Gramm

We had a case confirmed yesterday which reaffirms there has been regular exposure of Somalia to the virus, probably from Yemen.

Bruce Aylward

The three ships have set sail from Somalia, and the crew are all safe.

Michel Lu

While Somalia is normally one of the poorest and most food insecure countries in the world, current conditions are dire and way beyond the typically resilient Somali peoples' capacity to cope. The window of opportunity to avert disaster is quickly closing.

Nicholas Haan

The U.N. failed to respond. But it's mostly because the West didn't want another Somalia.

Richard Reitano

We do not know the exact location, but we suspect it was in northeastern Somalia.

Andrew Mwangura

The opening of the academy is a historic moment. It is the first such national institution that has been built in Somalia for a long time.

Maxwell Gaylard

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. If you go to Bosnia or Somalia or Peru or much of the third-world then it appears that the apocalypse has already arrived.

Terence Mckenna

Data from routine measles vaccination for 2005 indicates that less than 25 percent of infants were vaccinated before their first birthday and that Somalia has registered very low coverage for all vaccine-preventable diseases since the collapse of the central government in 1991.

John Lebga

This place is going to look like Little Somalia. We're going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.

Gary Jones

The situation is more worrying (in Somalia) because of the 15 years of conflict in a country that has lacked central government.

Pascal Hundt

The cargo -- consisting of 703 tons of maize, 108 tons of beans and 39 tons of vegetable oil -- was destined for the Lower Juba Valley, which is home to some of the most vulnerable people in Somalia, people who have repeatedly been affected by droughts and floods.

Robert Hauser

The drought is making an already dire situation worse for the majority of the people in southern Somalia.

Pascal Hundt

Carrying a gun in Somalia is a natural thing. We are not going to change the culture of Somalis overnight.

Maxwell Gaylard

There are gray areas. It would be quite a different issue if you were operating, let's say, in a Jordan -- how you might deal with that particular government -- as opposed to the problems that might be posed in a Somalia where there is no viable government.

Thomas O'connell

[The Italians are particularly wary of mission creep. Alluding to] the Somalia nightmare, ... involved in never-ending fighting.

Romano Prodi

It's simply an area that must be traversed if you're going from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean or southeast Asia. What we hope is that order is restored in Somalia and these thieves are dealt with effectively.

Michael Crye

If removal to Somalia is not possible, we will look for a third country. We will coordinate with our offices in Washington and also with Omar in terms of what kind of travel documents he can get.

Lauren Mack

Once again, people are dying trying to reach Yemen aboard smuggler's boats crossing the Gulf of Aden from Somalia.

William Spindler

[It is] very difficult, very hard, very unpredictable, very unstable but we don't have a choice... We try to do our best. There are too many men with guns in Somalia but that's the environment in which these vulnerable people find themselves.

Zlatan Milisic