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Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland. [14] Somalia has an estimated population of 18.1 million, [15] [16] [17] of which over 2 million live in the capital and largest city, Mogadishu. Around 85% of its residents are ethnic Somalis and the official languages of the country are Somali and Arabic, though the former is the primary ...
e. Somali ( Somali: Soomaaliya; aṣ-Ṣūmāl ), officially the Federal Republic of Somalia (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya, Jumhūriyyat aṣ-Ṣūmāl al-Fideraaliya) and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. The country was an important centre for commerce with the rest of ...
Abdusalam H. Omer – Somali economist and politician. Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Somalia and Governor of the Central Bank of Somalia. Abdi Yusuf Hassan – Somali politician, diplomat and journalist. Former director of IRIN and UNHCR Head of External and Media Relations in Southwest and Central Asia.
Mosque of Islamic Solidarity. Somalis performing the folk dance called Dhaanto. The culture of Somalia is an amalgamation of traditions that were developed independently since the Proto-Somali era. [ 1] The hypernym of the term Somali from a geopolitical sense is Horner and from an ethnic sense, it is Cushite.
History of Somalia. Between the fall of Siad Barre 's government in January 1991 and the establishment of the Transitional National Government in 2006 (succeeded by the Transitional Federal Government ), there was no central government in Somalia. [ 1] Large areas of the country such as Puntland and Galmudug were internationally unrecognized ...
Somalia is a country located in the Horn of Africa which officially consists of the intra-46th meridian east territory, the seven federal member states, namely Galmudug, Hirshabelle, Jubaland, South West, Puntland, and the municipality of Benadir. [ 2] It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Somali Sea and ...
The military history of Somalia encompasses the major conventional wars, conflicts and skirmishes involving the historic empires, kingdoms and sultanates in the territory of present-day Somalia, through to modern times. It also covers the martial traditions, military architecture and hardware employed by Somali armies and their opponents.
Somalia is fourth from bottom on the UN’s Gender Inequality Index. Aid groups say 52% of women in the country have experienced gender-based violence. About 98% undergo female genital mutilation.