Markus V. Hoehne is a PhD Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. He has been researching and publishing on Somali affairs since 2001. Currently he is engaged in an EU-funded project on diasporas for peace. www.diaspeace.org.

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Accord Issue 21: Somalia

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