Somalia, a nation in the horn of Africa has plunged into a state of lawlessness and anarchy and became ungoverned land soon after tribal rebels toppled the late strongman Mohamed Siad Bare in 1990.

During, the rule of Siad Bare, Somalis were enjoying in their full, a state of peace and tranquillity even though the government of Siad was as simple as one of the African administrations known for corruption and misrule.

But after the dismiss of Siad Bare government by the rebel groups, the expectation of the Somalis for better vanished there and their country pitched into disorder characterised by displacement, killings, rape and warlordism that has sent shockwaves through the spine of the world community and that has led an international intervention to the country in late 1992 led by the US government.

The US-led intervention was short-lived but effective and came at the right time as the suffering of the nation was in its highest peak and a wide scale famine was rampage and killing an already war-affected people.

Days after US Marines landed at the beaches of Somalia's sea-side capital city Mogadishu, a great miracle change was taking on the ground, civilians were receiving the much needed food assistance and the brutal militias wildly ruling on the streets went into hiding and Aid agencies poured into the country giving medical and nutritional help. The People forgot the suffering in months but unfortunately unwanted and unworthy fighting has pitted US forces against Militias led by late General Aidid and that has finally led the withdrawal of all multinational forces Somalia in earlier 1995.

After that, instead of establishing a system of law and order in their country and for their people, factional leaders on that time resumed their hostilities and the country went back to the darkness of senseless warfare among tribal factions till in the year 2000 when clan leaders formed a transitional government in a conference hosted by the brotherly nation of Djibouti but as clearly indicated in the above title of this article, lack sense of leadership led that government to be almost nothing as warlords keeping fiefdoms of the capital opposed to existence of the government and the TNG its self was partially alleged to have been ineffective in negotiations and resolve to the rival warlords.

Once again, in 2004 the international community though tired of their efforts to find solution to the problem of Somalia, hosted peace talks in the neighbouring country of Kenya, this time, prioritising the warlords who failed to sense a way they could agree to form a system of government in their war plagued nation. After a long marathon of discussions, a parliament was formed out of that conference which elected a president who chose a premier to form a government but unsurprisingly same leaders who attended in that peace talks abruptly turned against what they were part of and worse than its predecessor, the TFG failed to come to the capital but its leaders as usual as the so called leaders of Somalia failed to reach out and negotiate but preferred to what I can term, a fake assumption of primacy which is really lack of headship and foolishness.

During the wrangling between members of the TFG, unprecedented story has unfolded in Mogadishu which was a fighting between previously clan set-up Islamic courts and at then newly-established group calling its self a counter terrorism alliance. The fight between the Islamists and the alliance raged in the capital a short but deadly period and the courts came out the fighting victorious after uprooting leaders of the alliance who were actually the same warlords ruling the city in fiefdoms.

After creating a semblance of order in the city for the first time in 16 yrs, the Islamists were overwhelmed by the emotion of their victory and as typified by the leaders pre their time, leaders of the ICU began to go the wrong direction which was lack of understanding what the Somalis need, which is truly, a leadership that can bring back the disintegrated nation in peace and harmony instead they became preoccupied with issuing decrees which public became unhappy and finally they lost all their achievements in a war with the TFG assisted by Ethiopian forces in the end of 2006.

As could be predicted, top leaders of the transitional government of Somalia became riddled with short-sightedness, lack capacity of leading and worse than that incapable of forgetting Somalia's number one enemy "clan primacy" and that is still what is making the nation of Somalia, a piece of ungoverned land in this 21st century world so can the world forget saying that there are leaders in Somalia who can deliver? And will the international community rethink about Somalia? Because Somalia is now in its 18th year of anarchy, lawlessness and statelessness and let me clearly say here never expect anything positive from that those who are creating the havoc, let them be the so called system of TFG together with their unpopular Ethiopians, the Islamic insurgents and anyone else there in Somalia.

Finally, it is the responsibility of the Somalis to rethink as people and adjust the status and image of their nation in the world.