Somalia's Transitional Federal Government at a Crossroads

PRIO Policy Brief

Gomsrud, Lars Seland & Mohamed Husein Gaas, 2010. 'Somalia's Transitional Federal Government at a Crossroads', PRIO Policy Brief 10, Oslo: PRIO.
ISBN : 978-82-7288-373-6

As a budding state apparatus, Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government
(TFG) has so far failed to bring about any significant change and
is in dire need of reform if it is to have any success. The international
community lacks a comprehensive long-term policy towards Somalia.
This has led to short-term engagement and one-sided policies
that have often caused more harm than good. Several attempted
military interventions have shown that military action by itself cannot
re-establish Somalia as a viable and stable country. Remedying
Somalia’s problems will require coherent long-term actions by external
actors in the fields of development and reconstruction, avoiding
military interventions by neighbouring states, and reforming
the TFG to make it more able to fulfil the expectations of a warfatigued
Somali public.

Read more: Somalias TFG PRIO Policy Brief 10-2010 JC LSG DL.pdf