Somali Civil WarSomalia · 1991-ongoing“Listen to Somalia as a whole house falling, not only to the famous night when foreign soldiers ran through Mogadishu.”When Siad Barre fell in 1991, the state did not pass quietly into new hands. It broke apart.The lesson the elders kept: When a state collapses, the danger is not only the first fall. The danger is that every outside hand treats the broken house as a board for its own game.