Somalia: lurching back to war / Jane's Intelligence Digest, Aug 2006

"With international diplomacy focused on the Israeli-Lebanon conflict, the ongoing insurgency in Iraq and Iran's nuclear programme, the Horn of Africa seems to be sliding almost unnoticed towards a civil war in Somalia that could drag in neighbouring rivals Ethiopia and Eritrea and possibly even trigger a broader conflict that could exacerbate ethnic and religious divisions across the region. JID's Africa correspondent reports on the escalating crisis." [Sub required] [Country Profiles]