Somali Civil War 90s Phase

Somali military dictator Siad Barre's regime had fallen in 1991. What had taken his place was the various clan warlords that fought for control of Somalia. Some of the warlord factions include United Somali Congress (USC) with splinter factions of USC/Somali National Alliance (USC/SNA) and USC/Somali Salvation Alliance (USC/SSA) among with splinter factions of those splinter factions (such as USC/SSA-OMF and USC/SNA-OF), Somali Salvation Democracy Front (SSDF, not to be confused with the Sudan pro government militia of the same initials), Somali National Front (SNF), among countless other factions. For a while, none of the warring factions were strong enough to defeat its rivals. Famine was created during this fighting, causing the deaths of thousands of people. The UN intervened, but its intervention was scandalously incompetent. The warring factions especially the USC/SNA started to attack the peacekeepers and stealing 80% of the food given to aid the Somali people and trading it for weapons. The UN backed special forces (most famously the American Delta Force) started to launch operations against the warlord factions. This lead to disaster at the infamous "Black Hawk Down" incident with the deaths of 19 Americans and c.100 wounded at a disastrous attempt to capture a lieutenant of the USC/SNA. The UN pulled out, with Somalia still in the control of warlords. Mohamed Aidid, one of the leaders of USC/SNA and the self declared president of Somali, was later killed in a clash with his rivals. In 2000, a federal government called the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFG) was finally established, but with a group called the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) threatened the weak government. The Ethiopians intervened on the TFG side and defeated the ICU. A splinter faction of ICU called Al-Shabaab declared war against the government, and is still a threat to this day.