Somalia Geography

I. Environment and Natural History

Somalia coastline was one of the best strategic gifts in the world. In the past there was 14 attempts to reconstruct the state’s authority. The country constantly was hit by plague clan based groups, terrorist pledging allegiance, regional proxy wars, Islamic extremists, kidnappings, famine, and pirates. Somalia was torn apart by too much conflict for much of its 48 independent years. Somalia would of been a good power inside their region but in reality is was took over by lootings, famine, bomb attacks, wars, and piracy. The land of Somalia people was that of inhospitable and arid and has been for thousands of years. Warlords came in and destroyed the government and cut off large sections of the capital.

Somewhere in the 10th century up until the 19th century, Somaliland history of migration came from the south up to the North, from the towns to the hinterland. The 10th century had already took possession of the northern strip. A major move that took place as regards to Somalia migration was the arrival of the Arabia of Sheik in the 10th or the 11th century. The holy war started to breakout against the Christians, which was held in between the 14th and the 16th century. Somalia coast is no longer separate and even though there are some foreign present on the coast. Towards the thought of being a “failed state” the idea that it is a most desirable state and most affectively that society needs a state in order to exist. Previous to the European colonization of Somalia, Somalis did not have an existing central state in the use of a bureaucratic Weberian state. A number of anthropologists gave special attention to the delegation of political power of the pre-colonial Somali people and communities. Government power was based on the connection to the other people, and society was grouped through the past norms and laws. Although the struggle still remains, the Somali people uses a piece of machinery to resolve issues, they also used the Islamic religion to solve resolutions among other individuals and groups. Somalia was a pre-colonial stateless state. Stateless means a government organizes where there’s no formal centralize political organization exists, which continue to try to maintain stability and order through material, social sanctions, and