Since Somalia’s state collapsed in 1991, life expectancy has increased by two years, vaccination rates have increased, deaths from measles have dropped by close to a third, telephones and radios have multiplied . . .
I wish I’d said that:
The golden apple in Somalia is the expectation that there will soon be a central government. As long as there is that expectation, the clans must fight over who will control it.
(Wait, I did say something like that, circa twenty years ago, about Lebanon.)
Most of the article (cited by Perry Metzger) is about the traditional system of law.
Faré calls my attention to a related article on the same site.