POLITICS: U.N. Calls for "Green Zone" in Strife-Torn Somalia
Somalia, a perpetually violence-prone country described as one of the world's failed states, may go the way of Iraq.
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the U.N. special representative for Somalia, has proposed the creation of a "green zone" in the capital of Mogadishu, modeled on the lines of the highly protected U.S. safety cocoon in Baghdad.
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