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Somalia is one of those places that frequently attracts the modifier fragile alongside state,
which is already a step up from the years when the modifier was failed.
With international and regional partners playing a part,
it's become one of the world's longest-running state-building projects.
And a project it is.
keeping its constituents,
statelets and breakaway regions held together in the face of jihadist violence on multiple fronts.
It's a lot to ask of a fragile state.
The capital Mogadishu and the federal government of Somalia is looking weak at the moment.