Meredith Preston McGhie is Senior Programme Manager for Africa at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and provided technical support to the UN Political Office for Somalia in the Djibouti peace process for Somalia, October 2008 to February 2009.

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Accord Issue 21: Somalia

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