he political situation in Somali seems to remain in a state of flux, and due to tribal ties being paramount to national ones as well as the increased factional fracturing that has its roots in the Siad Barre regime, an inchoate government has not been able to organically develop.

This lack of a functioning ("organic") central government has persisted since the collapse of the Siad Barre regime in the late eighties/early nineties, and most probably is due to the after-effects of the chaos that was the 1989-1992 civil war, as well as Barre’s divide and rule tactics which “stoked deep interclan animosities and distrust."