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Between May 31 and June 9, 2008, representatives of Somalia's federal government and the moderate Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) group of Islamist rebels participated in peace talks in Djibouti brokered by the former United Nations Special Envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah. The conference ended with a signed agreement ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Early modern history of Somalia (2 C, 4 P) M. Medieval history of Somalia (2 C, 11 P)
April 9, 2009 C.E. Raid off Somalia April 8, 2009 C.E. – April 12, 2009 C.E. Maersk Alabama hijacking August 17, 2009 C.E. – ongoing Operation Ocean Shield
[2] In an interview featured in the BBC Online Somali section in June 2006, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said: "the Union of Islamic Courts was established to ensure that Somali people suffering for 15 years would gain peace and full justice and freedom from the anarchic rule of warlords who refuted their people to no direction."
Somalia, [a] officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, [b] is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti [14] to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, and the Indian Ocean to the east.
It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Guardafui Channel and Somali Sea to the east, and Kenya to the southwest. Somalia has the longest coastline on the mainland, [1] and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands. [2]
In the field of Somali Islamic studies, scholars like Ioan Lewis, Said Sheikh Samatar and Lee V. Cassanelli have written on the traditional Muslim structure of Somali society in books such as A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics Among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa (1961), Oral poetry and Somali nationalism: the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Military history of Somalia (9 C, 16 P) Somalian monarchy (2 C, 2 P) P. Philately of Somalia ...