Reply #2: We're kind of late on this one - like a few decades... [View All]

[saras]

The government fell apart decades ago, not long after drought forced many migratory cattle herders from the center of the country to move to the coast and harvest seafood.

The piracy started after first world fishing fleets entered their national waters and decimated their fisheries, and used their coastline as a toxic waste dump.

As far as I know, no one has any sort of plan to make Somalia anything like self-supporting. So, if they don't starve, either someone feeds them indefinitely or moves them to somewhere with a functioning economy.