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Challenges Ahead for the Somali Government

2007-01-05

Tensions continue in Somalia where government forces and Ethiopian troops have been fighting the Union of Islamic Courts, which the Bush Administration says is linked to Al-Qaeda. The U.S. Navy is deployed off the coast of Somalia and the U.S. State Department announced Thursday they were sending several million dollars worth of humanitarian aid to the country. Meanwhile, the transitional federal government of Somalia fully extended its control over the south and center of the country including the capital. As Abdurahman Warsame reports from Mogadishu, the real task of governing the country has just begun.

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