TITLE

One man's plea for Somalia

AUTHOR(S)

Robbins, Carla Anne

PUB. DATE

November 1992

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;11/23/92, Vol. 113 Issue 20, p14

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Interview

ABSTRACT

Interviews veteran Algerian diplomat Mohamed Sahnoun, who was forced to resign late last month as the United Nations' envoy to Somalia after he publicly criticized the UN for doing too little, too late to stop the civil war and famine that have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives there. The current situation in Somalia; The UN's failure; The future of the UN as a peacekeeper; What Somalia needs now.

ACCESSION #

9211231470

 

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