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  Somalia
 Awdal    
 Awdalland    
 Bakool    
 Banaadir    
 Bari    
 Bay    
 Galguduud    
 Gedo    
 Hiiraan    
  House of the People  Forum for National Parties 0 +0.00%
 Jubaland    
 Jubbada Dhexe    
 Jubbada Hoose    
 Khatumo State of Somaliland     
 Mudug    
 Nugaal    
  Prime Minister  Hamza Abdi Barre 0 +100.00%
 Puntland State of Somalia     
 Republic of Somaliland    
 Sanaag    
 Senate    
 Shabeellaha Dhexe    
 Shabeellaha Hoose    
 Sool    
 Togdheer    
 Woqooyi Galbeed    
Institutions
  President  Hassan Sheikh Mohamud 2 +32.10%

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Established July 01, 1960
Disbanded Still Active
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Last ModifiedBojicat August 26, 2019 06:30pm
DescriptionA one-time base of Dervish zealotry, the Republic of Somalia was sown by the federation of an Italian colony (Italian Somaliland) and a British protectorate (British Somaliland) on July 1, 1960.

Thirty-one years of autocracy later, a once promising nation gave way to our present-day Somalia; a chaotic, burned out, liquid slag of a country, besieged by breakaway states, self-declared independent republics, periodic foreign invasions, brutal militias and a heaving, havoc-making, barbarous militancy stretching beyond its borders.

The main government, the Federal Republic of Somalia, claims jurisdiction over almost all of Somalia, but in reality, controls only its capital, Mogadishu, and a scatter of army bases within its Outland protected by strung out, ineffective African Union forces.

Its South is managed by a Kenyan-financed puppet state called Jubaland. Its North is divided up between four "independent" breakaway provinces preying on each other's turf. Its coasts are inundated with harbor gangsters and pirates. Its center is a no-go no-man's-land of depravity and desolation terrorized by a wild and especially vicious jihadist group, the Al-Shabaab.

Little has improved over the last decade, despite many disaster-laden, multi-nation attempts. A country born of despair within which Perses, the Titan god of destruction, has been given free reign to roam it.

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Date Category Headline Article Contributor
Jul 20, 2018 01:00pm General When is a nation not a nation? Somaliland’s dream of independence  Article IndyGeorgia 
Dec 23, 2015 12:00pm News Somali government bans Christmas celebrations  Article IndyGeorgia 
Jul 07, 2013 09:00pm News Gay Somali refugees face death threats   Article Penguin 
Apr 29, 2013 11:25am News 260,000 died in 2011 Somali famine  Article IndyGeorgia 
Jun 23, 2011 05:00am News Harvard-Educated Technocrat Chosen as Somalia Premier  Article ArmyDem 
Aug 24, 2010 10:00pm News Al-Qaeda-linked Somali militants storm Mogadishu hotel, kill at least 33  Article ArmyDem 

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