Khat is a green-leaved plant grown predominantly in the Horn of Africa‚ and consumed in the diaspora 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
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joining this group in leaps and bounds; Somalis fleeing chaos‚ and Ethiopians leaving their homeland for a myriad of reasons. The latter are an odd addition to the club in that they are boat people of a landlocked country. The boat people of the Horn of Africa begun grabbing world attention with reports
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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 Somali Republic is the easternmost extension of the African continent and is bordered by Djibouti‚ Ethiopia‚ Kenya‚ the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. The Somali are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. More than eight million Somalis live in a territory stretching north from northern Kenya to Djibouti and west from the Indian Ocean to the Ogaden in Ethiopia. Although Somalis are often seen as one of the few ethnic groups that define a nation‚ the country of Somalia does contain small
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2.1 CLAN STRUCTURE Somalia is a very peculiar country in Africa. It is located in Africa but has been considered Arab in a way. Somalia joined the Arab league which presently consists of 22 members in 1974 in which it is still a member. In the strictest sense‚ Somalis are recognized by their clan lineage which is why clans are a critical institution in Somalia. It is the basis for individual security‚ access to land and the social justice system (Besteman & Cassanelli‚ 2000). Somali clan leaders
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Somaliland‚ a nation north to the violent and failing state of Somalia‚ is in the midst of “a remarkable political transformation‚”(Kaplan 2008‚ 143)‚ and is described as a democratic state. How does one come to the conclusion that Somaliland is a democratic nation? The first step to answering this question‚ is in defining democracy and the prominent factors which act as conditions nations must meet in order to be considered democratic and then determine if they are applicable to Somaliland. Democracy
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current division of the country and the current uprising of a Al Shabaab makes the nation a war -zone with almost 8 front lines. This is all we have to understand about Somalia’s famine: a process that has no solution with a war in place. Countries in Africa that are not in war find it difficult to approach poverty and development issues. Somalia‚ a country listed as last in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International in 2009 and ranked next to last between Iraq and Afghanistan
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When you think of the country Somalia‚ what comes to mind? To most of you I’m sure the terms under developed‚ poor‚ corrupt‚ and even hopeless come to thought. The question that many fail to ask is‚ why? Why should innocent citizens‚ including mothers and young children have to live in this kind of environment? What people are forgetting is that these Somaliland citizens are human beings. Nobody in this world should to have to live in a country where there life is in danger every single day. This
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light-grey skin‚ and has two large horns coming out of its nose? After reading that description‚ ideally one’s answer should be a rhinoceros. In most cases‚ we always picture a rhinoceros to have two horns and light-grey skin‚ but often forget about the rhinoceros who have darker colored skin and only one horn. There were once hundreds of rhinoceros species however‚ only five species exist today. The African Black and White rhinos‚ and the Sumatran rhinos have two horns‚ but the Indian and Javan rhinos
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to sheer off the animals’ horns to supply a surge in demand for purported medicine in China that’s pricier than gold. At least 18 rhino fell to poachers in and around the park in 2012‚ compared to 10 in all of India in 2011. Insurgents eager to bolster their war chests here in India’s Assam state are also involved‚ according to police. Authorities are investigating a recent news report that a Chinese company offered two rebel groups a deal: weapons in exchange for horns and body parts of the one-horned
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