11. The country has disintegrated into fiefdoms protected by clan militias. 12. The committee is to get clan militias to withdraw from the Bermuda and Medina neighborhoods near the airport and sea port within three days. 13. The humanitarian effort became a low-grade wwar between clan militias and U.N. forces. 14. The humanitarian effort became a low-grade war between clan militias and U.N. forces. 15. The humanitarian effort degenerated into a low-grade war between clan militias and U.N. forces. 16. The port had previously been controlled by the Suleiman clan militia that has allied itself with the year-old government of President Abdiqassim Salad Hassan. 17. The rebels then turned on each other and the country disintegrated into fiefdoms protected by clan militias. 18. The rebels then turned on each other and the country disintegrated into fiefs protected by clan militias. 19. Their clan militias are fighting for control of surviving port and airport facilities, in order to tax ships and planes. 20. Unlike the rest of Somalia, which disintegrated into fiefs protected by clan militia, Somaliland has remained relatively peaceful. |
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