Photo Credit: Refugees International
03/06/2008

While Somalia has been without a working government for the past 18 years, the humanitarian situation has significantly deteriorated since December 2006 when Ethiopian troops defeated the Union of Islamic Courts who controlled parts of South Central Somalia. In the conflict that ensued, hundreds of thousands of Somalis fled their homes, including 700,000 from the capital Mogadiscio according to the UN Refugee Agency. The number of internally displaced is now estimated to be as high as 1 million, with hundreds of thousands more seeking refuge in neighboring countries.