This difference between north and south in restoring order also, of course, reflected the relative absence from the north of competing, power-hungry military leaders who sought to mobilize their clan connections with no thought for any wider public good. It also highlighted the divisive impact of foreign aid which, in the course of the following decade, proved to be a major factor fuelling conflict in southern Somalia.

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 623