Somalia is a great country with a very beautiful and friendly people in a strategic location in the Horn of Africa‚ bordering the Gulf of Aden in the north‚ the Indian Ocean in the east‚ Ethiopia in the west‚ Kenya in the southwest and Djibouti in the northeast. The flag of Somalia (a light blue field with a central white star) represents the five regions of Somalia in the Horn of Africa. Somalia has a long coastline of more than 3‚300 kilometers – being one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes
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paled with concern‚ crises seem like problems of the past. Until today. Kenya has fallen ill with a crisis of their own: Somali refugees. With overpopulated camps and lack of adequate aid‚ Kenya feels it has no choice but to remove all refugees. Kenya’s possible forced removal of Somali refugees violates international and national refugee law by repatriating displaced peoples into a country classified as a “failed” state; therefore‚ the United States should send funds to pay for more refugee camps
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“[J]ihad united Somali clans against a common enemy‚ the foreign “infidels‚” Ethiopian and European‚” according to Fae Miller in a study on the influences of Islam on Somali society (p. 58). While Jihad is only one aspect of Islam; Somalia has been a predominately Muslim country for centuries. It is impossible to examine Somali culture without appreciating the power of clan dynamics and religion and how pervasive they are. Miller’s observation depicts how Islam has been a unifying force susceptible
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by emigrants from the region – Ethiopians‚ Kenyans‚ Yemenis and most notably Somalis – who report a mild‚ amphetamine-like high. Khat is legal in the UK‚ as are mafrishes‚ but spirited campaigns to outlaw it on health and social grounds have been galvanised in the past year by claims that terror cells are operating wherever khat is chewed‚ and that al-Shabaab is focusing its recruitment efforts on disenfranchised Somali youth with khat-addled minds. CNN said that reporters have been attacked while
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The Impact of Globalization on Somali Culture Abstract Since its inception in 1960 when it gained independence from Britain and Italy respectively after the merger of former British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland into what came to be known as the republic of Somalia‚ the impact of globalization on Somali culture has evidently been beneficial and detrimental in many aspects. The idea that a nation cannot progress economically without a strong central government does not coincide with the current
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Somalia‚ or the Somali Republic‚ is a region in East Africa’s Horn of Africa that has been plagued with tragedy for hundreds of years. Somalia is not recognised as an official country‚ and is governed by the Transitional Forces Government. For more than 2‚500 years‚ Somalia has been inhabited by a range of ethnic groups‚ but the Somalian people led an independent government until the rise of European colonialism in the 1800s. In the late 1880s‚ Somalia was conquered and divided into three separate
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The term boat people came into the political lexicon in the 1970s with the Vietnamese escaping communism to settle in other New book Sivan about Ethiopian refugees heading to Yemen countries. Then the term started to be used in other spots of the world‚ including the Caribbean in the 1980s when Cubans and Haitians flocked to the United States fleeing political and economic downturns. In the past couple of years Ethiopians and Somalis are joining this group in leaps and bounds; Somalis fleeing chaos
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The people group I have chosen is the Oromo People. The Oromo people have occupied north-eastern and eastern Africa for as long as recorded history. It was most probably from there that they dispersed and became differentiated into separate linguistic and cultural groups. They speak Cushitic. These peoples physical and color characteristics vary from Hamitic to Nilotic. The Oromo form a group that spread southwards‚ east and then west and now occupy a large part of the horn of Africa.
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Running Head: WELL CHILD CARE FOR A REFUGEE SOMALI BANTU FAMILY Well Child Care for a Somali Bantu Family Community This project consisted of the Somali Bantu refugees living in the Tennessee Village Community in Nashville‚ TN. Within this population set‚ the subset includes families with children aged 12 months and younger. It is estimated that 8-12‚000 Somali Bantu will to arrive in the US in the 2003-2004 year (USDS:IIP‚ 2003). Of this 8-12‚000 refugees‚ the students of Belmont
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Eastleigh in Kenya The latest mayhem and destruction of the Somali community in Kenya speaks to deeper issues than meets the eye. It speaks to the pathologies of oppression and subjugation of a society that once enjoyed honor and respect among its equals. The condition in which Somalis found themselves since the end of colonialism is explained better by Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” and Paul Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” The Somali person is an oppressed “nigger.” The word nigger (with
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