Somalia Development And Redevelopment

U.S.-led troops landing in Somalia will find international relief officials already focusing on that nation's long-term needs even while rushing food to the famished millions. Relief workers, in interviews conducted since President Bush's announcement Friday of military intervention, expressed hope that the international community will look beyond delivery of food and other immediate aid and help begin rebuilding the nation. They also voiced concerns that U.S.

It was not so long ago that Somali entrepreneurs needing permits to conduct business had to travel hundreds of miles to the capital, Mogadishu, and then spend at least a month begging and bribing government officials to procure the proper stamps and signatures. Even making a business call sometimes required crossing into another country, as Somalia's state-controlled utility left broad swaths of territory without service.

It was not so long ago that Somali entrepreneurs needing permits to conduct business had to travel hundreds of miles to the capital, Mogadishu, and then spend at least a month begging and bribing government officials to procure the proper stamps and signatures. Even making a business call sometimes required crossing into another country, as Somalia's state-controlled utility left broad swaths of territory without service.

U.S.-led troops landing in Somalia will find international relief officials already focusing on that nation's long-term needs even while rushing food to the famished millions. Relief workers, in interviews conducted since President Bush's announcement Friday of military intervention, expressed hope that the international community will look beyond delivery of food and other immediate aid and help begin rebuilding the nation. They also voiced concerns that U.S.