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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. envoy for Somalia urged the international community on Thursday to take action to stop the violence in the conflict-wracked Horn of Africa nation and consider deploying an interim multinational force.
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah told the Security Council that recent encouraging political developments by Somalia's transitional government must be matched by progress in improving security and protecting victims of violence.
"I believe Somalia remains a prisoner of the past — never forgiven for the violent actions carried out against the international community in the 1990s," he said. "There is, it seems, either a reluctance to go back there or a deliberate decision to punish all Somalis, many of whom were not even born during the last international intervention."
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