Displacement of people in Somalia following civil war of the late 1980s created a humanitarian crisis. Most citizens, fleeing violence in Mogadishu ended up in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and eventually further afield to Europe, North America and the Middle East.
Decades later and beneath this tragedy, a deeper structural failure lies: the inability and unwillingness of successive Somali governments to create political stability and economic conditions necessary to retain their own population and incentivise them to invest at home.
