Somalia has emerged from a period of contracted turmoil and conflict. During this crisis, the nation lost a legitimate government, economic power to some extent its sovereignty especially as depicted by proliferation of foreign troops aligning themselves to different factions and the power to self-determine. Many scholars, political actors, commentators and journalists described Somalia as a “failed state”1. The import of this on international relations and diplomatic front is that the state loss of its voice on international and regional state matter arising from a nonexistence or tattered foreign policy.
