Somalia




Ryan:What I have learned from doing this project is that Somalia can be a very bad place to live with the economy doing horrible and the goverment unable to help with all the current problems. Comparing Somalia to Washington, we both are in a bad economic time, but Somalia has it much worse. Another thing that I thought was interesting was that the average life expectancy is only 46.6 years. The average life exectancy for the US is 77.6 years.
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Drew: What I have learned while doing this project is how the goverment is so corrupt in somalia and how bad their economy is. i have also learned about how many people there are in Africa and what their life expectancy is. I also learned about the ethnic groups and their religion. I also learned that somalia's literacy is 24% of the total population.

Statistics Population : 7,488,773-9,656,500(July 2001 est.)

Life Expectancy : 46.6 years Ethnic Groups : Somali (85%), Bantu, Arabs

Religion : Sunni Muslim Literacy : 24% (total population) Exports : Livestock, Bananas, and Fish Currency : somalia shilling(SOS) External Debt: US$2.6 billion Internally Displaced Persons: 350,000 Refugees: 451,600 population of people in america speaking swahilli

Geography **The location of Somolia is in the Horn Of Africa** **with the Gulf of Aden to the north and the Indian Ocean to the east**. To the west is Ethiopia and to the south west is Kenya. media type="youtube" key="LXjqPqIHKLM" width="425" height="350"

Historymedia type="youtube" key="WKQSkMMY0IU" width="425" height="350" Controversy arose in 1975 over US charges that the USSR was developing a military installation at the port of Berbera. Somalia denied the charges and invited inspection by journalists and US congressmen, who reported that they had found evidence of Soviet missile-handling facilities there.

Economy ** Main Crops: ** **bananas, sorghum, corn, sugarcane, mangoes, sesame seeds, beans; cattle, sheep, goats; fish. Natural Resources: uranium and largely unexploited reserves of iron ore, tin, gypsum, bauxite, copper, salt. Major Industries: A few small industries, including sugar refining, textiles, petroleum refining (mostly shut down) ** hobo sleepin on street

Governmentpeople in somalia with guns somalia's government is very corrupt and there are many murders and gunfights



Religion Most Somalis are Sunni Muslims. (Less than 1 percent of ethnic Somalis are Christians.) people bowing down and worshiping

Culture  **Children 5-14 Years of Age Currently Working: 41.9%**

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 * Dating in the Western sense does not exist in Somalia. Young urban people often meet at universities or at work and persuade their parents to help establish a courtship. Rural marriages are usually arranged.  One-to-one dating is reserved for after the engagement party or after the marriage contract has been signed. The groom must give a bridal token to the bride's family. Traditional wedding festivities are spread over three nights of dancing and singing, and men and women celebrate separately on some of the nights. **======

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