In 1991, a power struggle ensues between two warring clan lords, Mohamed Farah Aideed and Ali Mahdi Mohamed. As a result of this struggle, thousands of Somali civilians are killed or wounded. In 1992, an estimated 350,000 Somalis die of disease, starvation, or civil war. Images of famine and war are shown on American news networks. In 2000, A cholera outbreak due to unsanitary water kills hundreds of Somalis. It was the context of a civil war that encouraged many Somalians to leave their country in the 1990s and 2000s. The United States received more than 10.000 Somali refugees in 2006. IN 2007 were admitted almost 7000 refugees from Somali.
