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Following four consecutive years of drought, parts of Somalia are projected to enter a famine next month, based on new reports about acute food insecurity in the region.
Somalia's population has grown by 390% between 1960 and 2010, to reach approximately 13.5 million people in 2014. In 2021, Somalia registered a new NDC plan, [19] which includes an overall goal to reduce greenhouse gas "business-as-usual" emissions by 30 percent by 2030 and adapt to the effects of climate change under the global Paris Agreement.
The country has a bicameral legislature, which consists of the Senate (upper house) and the National Assembly of Somalia (lower house). Together, they make up the Federal Parliament of Somalia. [ 2 ] In 2012, the Federal Parliament of Somalia was concurrently inaugurated, ushering in the Federal Government of Somalia , the first permanent ...
The U.S. military targeted the global leader of ISIS in an airstrike in Somalia in May but cannot confirm if Abdulqadir Mumin is dead, three U.S. officials say.
The Federal Government of Somalia is internationally recognized as Somalia's official central government. It occupies the country's seat in the United Nations, the African Union, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The Somali federal government has a Permanent Representative and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
The United Nations has described floods that uprooted hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia and neighbouring countries in East Africa following a historic drought as a once-in-a-century event.
The most alarming drought in more than half a century in Somalia is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. (Sept.29)(AP Video by: Nqobile Ntshangase) Blind and homeless amid ...
Somalia and China later signed their first official trade agreement in June 1963. [128] During the Cold War period, the Somali government maintained active relations with its Chinese counterpart. The Somali authorities campaigned for an end to China's diplomatic isolation and supported instead its entry into the United Nations. [129]