| 1 | There was no fully functional national government in Somalia for more than a decade. | |
| 2 | The establishment of the Nationalist government in 1928 was supposed tobring the period of warfare to an end. | |
| 3 | The Communists had set up a base there to fight both the Japanese and the Nationalist government, which was led by Chiang Kai-shek. | |
| 4 | as such, it was the wartime seat of Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalist government and is the major inland settlement on the Yangtze. | |
| 5 | Since the fall ofthe tyrannical government of Siad Barre in 1991, Somalia has not had apermanent national government. |