Talk:Operation Provide Relief

Question

Was this mission eventually successful? I have figures on hand that state that it may have been because so many people had died by the time the US went in on Operation Provide Relief that the death rate slowed. Red Herring perhaps? It is in Michael Maran's book "The Road To Hell".

I'm going to go ahead and edit the article. Let me know if you disagree.

I also think this article needs to be renamed UNOSOM I, and a seperate article raised about PROVIDE RELIEF. Despite the significant American involvement, it was not an American mission but rather one of the UN. It is innacurate to say that UNOSOM and PROVIDE RELIEF were the same mission: they were not, and as it is this article provides too much of an American bias.

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I don't want to take away from the people who were trying to make it a success, but is this article a bit simplistic? One journalist said it would have been a better idea just to dump dollar bills all over the place than to conduct these operations. Sorry for being vague.

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Please cite references... LordAmeth 14:54, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Misgivings about actual coverage standing since 2006

Reference: [1] This user 82.109.66.149 says in his note of 27 January 2006 here : "This article is incorrect: RESTORE HOPE and PROVIDE RELIEF were not part of the UNOSOM mission but of UNITAF, separate from UNOSOM but also under the UN aegis. As it stands, this article largely ignores the mandate and duties of UNOSOM I and UNOSOM II and opts instead for a description of US actions solely." User 82.109.66.149's comments end here.

Moved his / her comments here to talk page as article is not the place for such comments.

Please address misgivings of User 82.109.66.149 for a more conclusive article. werldwayd (talk) 23:42, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Need for article on Famine in Somalia 1991-1992

We do have now an article an article about relief efforts of the famine but not article on the famine. I would have thought the main article would be the famine and relief effort(s) as a sub-section of the article about the famine. werldwayd (talk) 23:47, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

The food crisis occurred within the context of the war. The UNITAF mission's mandate was to stabilize the political situation, including providing relief. So the humanitarian situation was officially administered under Operation Provide Relief and Operation Restore Hope. Middayexpress (talk) 14:01, 29 August 2013 (UTC)