Impact of UN

• • UNITAF enabled food and medicine to be distributed which helped to end the famine.
  • Uneasy truce between warlords.
  • Violence had stopped where UN troops had been, which was about 40% of Somalia.
  • Armed militia fled to countryside resulting in banditry

  Banditry is the act of taking property from another by using force/by threatening use of force.
• There was no long term peace.

  • No effective government or police implemented

  Boutros-Ghali believed disarming warlords would lead to stability.
• May 1933


  UNOSOM 2 created, encouraging disarmament and reconciliation.

  • Enforce UN resolutions
  • Restore peace, law and order
  • Help Somalis rebuild their nation

  First time UN had intervened since Congo in 1960s in international affairs, with Security council agreement.