Somalia Profile
History, Government, and Current Conditions
The Horn of Africa — a peninsula in East Africa that juts into the Arabian Sea and lies south of the Gulf of Aden — is one of the most complex and conflicted regions of the world. Regularly hit by natural catastrophes, it also has one of the world’s highest levels of malnutrition and is continuously threatened with major humanitarian crises. Each of the countries in the Horn suffers from protracted political strife: Somalia has been a failed state since civil war broke out there in 1991. Successive transitional governments have remained on the brink of collapse, overtaken by an…
