Mogadishu

Maryam was born 1951 in the capital of Somalia Mogadishu. She is from a small family who consist of parents and two siblings. She is the oldest child in the family and her sister Halima was born in Mogadishu, the same house Maryam was born. Her father was a soldier and used to go to different cities in Somali. Her father went to a city called Kismayo, and built a house for his family. He was a loving and a caring father. Therefore, after living in Kismayo by himself, he felt that he lives in…

Lower Shabelle, Mogadishu and the Bay area were hardest hit, with the number of child deaths estimated to have reached 18%, 17% and 13% respectively. The death rates from this deadly drought peaked at 30,000 people a month between May and August 2011. This is when the UN…

3. The character of war has changed whilst the nature of war has not? Discuss. It is interesting to know that war can be compared in two aspects. One is the character of war and the other is the nature of war. It was known that the character of war has changed whilst the nature of war has not. Why is it so? To understand further lets us first define what is the character of war and the nature of war. The character of war describes the changing way that war as a phenomenon manifests in the real…

The death of the hundreds of thousands of Rwandan civilians is as much of the international community’s fault as the leaders of the genocide. There is evidence indicating that the UN was forewarned of the mounting genocide in Rwanda. According to declassified French documents, France had been informed of the mounting genocide from at least January 1993, more than a year before the Rwandan Genocide. Despite knowing this, French president François Mitterrand supported the Hutu leaders, who was…

Throughout the 21st century Somali terrorists have terrorized the land and sea of the horn of Africa. Somalia is a country that has been plagued with civil war since 1986. In Somalia right now there are two major Islamic terrorist groups. Theses groups are known as Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda. From what these terrorist groups have done, Somalia is ;left with close to nothing to build it back up. Somalia cannot overcome this issue of terrorism because of Al-Shabaab, terrorists taking over the nation,…

Shabbab kidnapped four western aide workers and more than a dozen Somali’s. (Article, Fall of Mogadishu Leaves US Policy in Ruins, The Guardian 2006). This incident greatly affected the presence of aid workers in Somalia and has resulted in the African Union amending its policy on sending western aid workers into Somalia. Shabbab has also carried out car bombing attacks at the African Union base in Mogadishu. In addition to other failed state factors, the threat of violent acts of power, either…

achievements is that Africa had many trade routes going through it so that meant more people would buy their goods and help them to gain wealth. For example, in document 8 there were trade routes connecting Kilwa, Zimbabwe, Sofala, Mombasa, Malindi, Mogadishu, Aksum, Lalibela, Zelia, Jidda, Aden, Calicut, and Muscat. So Africa sold goods to all of those places so every sale they made they would gain wealth making their economy, and wealth better and…

The first reason as to why we should not celebrate the voyages of Zheng He is the trips were costly. When you look at map on Document A you can see he traveled in an unusual route, this proves that he was already traveling to well-established ports. It was all planned and he was not traveling to unknown lands, or really discovering anything. During his seven voyages he traveled about 105,300 miles combined, not only is that a long distance to travel but it also costs a lot of money. After all,…

In this article/journal, it is discovered how the Cold War affected the U.S. African policy and how the outcome was different than expected. The policy that the U.S. had towards Somalia during the Cold War era explained the transition of the U.S.’ policy change from an alliance to using Somalia as a battleground during the War of Terror. The change in policy became disorganized and a hectic policy framework. There was an alliance of warlords in 1991 that defeated President Siad Barre’s command,…

The Mogadishu city state experienced autonomous growth after the events of Arab slave trade. In Kenya, there were Lamu, Malindi and Mombasa city states that experienced massive growth from the Arab slave trade. In Tanzania, there was Kilwa city that followed the…