What do you know about Somalia?

Somalia is a coastal nation in East Africa widely known as Horn of Africa. Geographically and the second longest coastal in the continent, it is surrounded by Ethiopia, Djibouti on the north and mi-west and Kenya on the south-west. Somalia was colonized by British for North, and Italian government for south and took its indepen dence on July 1st in 1960 It’s one of the Arab League, IGAD, AU, Easte Africa Community and thus, has often been considered as an ‘Arab’ in some many ways. Adan Abdulle Osman famously known as Adan Adde was a Somali politician and became the first elected president for Somalia. He was serving this nation for seven years as from 1960 up to 1967. Abdi Rashid Sharmarke became president of Somalia and was leading this nation for two years. By the end of 1969, president Sharmarke was assassinated and the country was taken control by Mohamed Siyad Bare and had dictated the country since 1990. In 1991, the world was pragmatically shocked when civil war engulfed Somalia. The government collapsed and humanitarian tragedy of unprecedented scale unfolded. The impact of state collapse on human development has been profound involving the mass loss of life, massive internal migrations and flight abroad. Somalia, a country in the east of Africa with about twenty millions population, went into the hands of faction leaders. Armed violence struggles between Somali political warring factions followed the breakdown of the government. Since then, civil conflicts had blocked the progress towards improving peace and security in Somalia. All governmental structures including justice systems, economic infrastructures and as well as government installation have been broken. Mogadishu-Somali’s capital city became a battle field as armed forces continued clashes in and out of every region in the country. In response, a United States-led military intervention attempted to facilitate access for humanitarian relief but was disrupted by armed forces and famine and droughts continued in the south in result.Chaos, anarchy, violence and political unrest were all words from Somalia and it is plain that the world had attempted several times. to resolve Somali quagmire and is still engaged to steadily approach Somali conflicts. And it is also doubtless that the citizens of third world in general and Somalis in particular are escaping from poverty and violence and fleeing to European community states seeking for asylum and better times. Thus, fellow citizens, I am reminding you this to jointly fight against the anti FEDERALISM team which wants to lead this civil war devastated nation back to the 1990s. ABDIRISACK ALI HASSAN