"The BBC's country profile of Somalia sums up this view as widely publicized by the mainstream media: "Somalia has been without an effective central government since President Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991. Fighting between rival warlords and an inability to deal with famine and disease led to the deaths of up to one million people.""
From the link to the article I posted.
And you contend that this assesment is correct, and that a central government - any central government - would have prevented it?