Despite peace process, Islamic Courts pledge 'war'

MOGADISHU, Somalia Sep 19 - While the political leadership of Somalia's Islamic Courts movement is presently engaged in face-to-face talks with the country's Transitional Federal Government (TFG), guerrilla commanders on the ground have pledged to continue the war. more.http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/publish/Somalia_27/Somalia_Despite_Djibouti_peace_process_Islamic_Courts_pledge_war.shtml

Horn of a dilemma

The Somali Peninsula, better known as The Horn of Africa, is the easternmost tip of the African continent. The region contains the countries of Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia, covering approximately 2 million square kilometers, nine times the size of the Korean Peninsula.
During the years 1982 to 1992, more than 2 million people in the region died in war-related famine. In particular, there were over 1 million casualties in Ethiopia due to the catastrophic famine, known as the Great Famine, in 1984. more.http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ASAZ-7JMDXE?OpenDocument&RSS20=03