Agenda: Time to Fight the War On Want in Somalia ; As a Birmingham Teacher Is Killed in Somalia, Economist Dr Terry Lacey Remembers the Country in More Peaceful Times and Calls for an End to Foreign Intervention

Birmingham Post › April 17, 2008

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My first trip to Somalia was as a young European Commission official accompanying my Director General for Development in 1976 on a mission to see President Siad Barre about the implementation of the African, Caribbean & Pacific Agreement (ACP), between the European Community and Somalia.

We did not realise how lucky we were that Somalia was in one piece with one President.

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Agenda: Time to Fight the War On Want in Somalia ; As a Birmingham Teacher Is Killed in Somalia, Economist Dr Terry Lacey Remembers the Country in More Peaceful Times and Calls for an End to Foreign Intervention

It's still not clear if and when we will see that again. There was an illusion of normality in Mogadishu contrasted to now, but the destabilisation process had already started because the Ogaden war was just beginning. However this was illusory. This Somalia is now in at least three or four pieces - the Baidoa Transitional Federal Government and the South, Mogadishu, and Punt...

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