You are now in a LAWLESS LAND!

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You are now in a LAWLESS LAND!
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SOMALIA!!
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GEOGRAPHY...

• Located in the NE part of Africa, next to the
  Middle East
• CapitalMogadishu
• Slightly smaller than Texas
• Many droughts in summer, floods during rainy
  season

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RELIGION

• Mostly Islam this is due to location

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GOVERNMENT

• Prior to 1991
• Constitution developed in 1979
• Executive power held by a president
• Only one legal political party
• Somalia Revolutionary Socialist Party

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GOVERNMENT

• Post 1991
• Government overthrown by warlords
• Mayors became warlords
• Area known as a Lawless Land
• No permanent national government

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ECONOMICS

• One of the poorest nations in the World
• GDP 600
• 65 of the economy is based on agriculture
• Due to various natural hazards -droughts/famine,
  many of the cattle are ill and no one will
  purchase this from them

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SOCIAL STRUCTURE

• PopulationApprox 8.9 million
• Life expectancy is
• 47 male
• 50 female

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EDUCATION

• Prior to 1991 it was free, literacy rates were up
• Post 1991-only 8 of school age children are in
  school
• Now instead of attending school children learn
  the way of the streets chew khat, shoot guns

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EXPRESSIVE

• Language
• Somali is the main
• Also Italian, English and Arabic
• Literacy Rate
• age 15 and over can read and write male
  49.7 female 25.8

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Why was this not completely successful?

• Operation Restore Hope UN mission to give food
  to Somalis
• Somali officials had over 40 checkpoints set up
  for food to go through
• The typical 3-day trip turned into a 21-day
  journey

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Limited Jobs

• Refugees have fled to Kenya and Ethiopia
• The market is poor, still based on farming and
  herding

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