Somalia: The Transition Settles Into Drifting Conflict

From the last week of April through mid-May, the "transition" of Somalia's Transitional Federal Institutions (T.F.I.s) to a permanent constitutional order, which is supposed to take place by August, 2011 according to an international mandate, ground to a halt as the Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.) and the Transitional Federal Parliament (T.F.P.) settled into a bitter power struggle over conflicting conceptions of how long and under what conditions their terms should be extended beyond August, and the Western "donor"-powers, which finance the T.F.I.s and attempt to exert influence on them through the United Nations, observed the fight from the sidelines after having failed in mid-April to control the "transition" and bring it to a conclusion.

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