SOMALIAN INSURGENTS

Somalia is a country located in the so-called The Horn of Africa, flooded by the waters of the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden, which since 1991 has been consumed by an almost incessant civil war, which can already be divided into several phases. Its beginning was closely related to the overthrow of the dictator Mohammed Siad Barre which this event unfortunately led to a far-reaching disintegration of the central government in Somalia. Due to the chaos prevailing in Somalia, the United Nations in 1992 sent a conciliation force known as UNOSOM I to this country, which - with the participation of American troops - managed to create a provisional government in Somalia. However, after the withdrawal of the United Nations and other troops, in 1995 another stage of the civil war began. In the period 1996-2006, Somalia was again completely anarchy, with individual regions of the country proclaiming independence. The situation got even more complicated when the Ethiopian-Somali war was conducted in the period 2006-2009. After the Ethiopian intervention was over, another stage of the civil war took place, which has lasted from 2009 to the present day. Its indirect effect was a huge increase in piracy in the Horn of Africa region.