IRRC No. S1
Somalia
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Abstract
In 1990, the ICRC was the only humanitarian organization with a regular presence in northern Somalia, where the conflict between government forces and the SNM continued unabated. The fighting compounded ethnic tensions, leading to an extremely complicated situation where the various Somali tribes in the area found themselves aligned with the combatant groups; the circumstances of the conflict were rendered still more complex by the presence of thousands of Ethiopian refugees in the area.