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Somalia: working to mend a shattered nation

Lawlessness and suffering still reign in many parts of Somalia many years after the collapse of its central government in the early 1990s. Since that time, the United Nations has continued to provide aid to the Somali people...
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With political upheaval and civil wars engulfing much of West Africa in recent years, the region has become a major center of U.N. operations...
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Building peace in the
turbulent Central African Republic

A cycle of political-military uprisings since the mid-1990s has destabilized and further impoverished the Central African Republic. Although constitutional order was restored in 2005... Full Story...