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Unified Task Force

1992–1993 UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Unified Task Force (UNITAF), also known as Operation Restore Hope, was a United States–led, United Nations–sanctioned coalition military force deployed to Somalia from 5 December 1992 to 4 May 1993. It was established to replace United Nations Operation in Somalia I, which had been deployed in April 1992 in response to the 1992 famine—a crisis that followed the 1991 collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic and the full outbreak of the Somali Civil War.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1993, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Unified, Task and Force can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 1992–1993 UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Unified Task Force” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.