
Foreign Trade and Transport in Somalia, Mogadishu
Business in Somalia, Hargeisa, Bosaso, Mogadishu, Galkayo, Borama, Merca, Jamam
Somalia (Federal Republic of Somalia) is an East African
country
- Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya in Somali language
- جمهورية الصومال الفدرالية in Arabic
- Mogadishu is the political and administrative
capital of Somalia
- Largest cities of Somalia: Mogadishu, Hargeisa, Bosaso, Galkayo, Borama, Merca, Jamame, Kismayo, Baidoa and
Burao
- Somali main economic activities: agriculture (65% of the GDP),
transport,
livestock (50% of the export earnings),
services and telecommunications
- Somalia has the largest population of camels in the world
- The Somali industrial sector is based on the
agricultural products processing (10% of the GDP)
- Coca-Cola bottling plant in Mogadishu
- Somalia Stock Exchange (SSE) in Mogadishu
- Natural resources of Somalia: uranium, iron ore, tin, gypsum, bauxite, copper, salt
and natural gas
- 43% of Somalis live on less than 1 USD per day
- Significant informal economy
- Important Somali Diaspora
- Borders of Somalia: Djibouti (58 kilometres), Ethiopia (1,626 kilometres,
Dire Dawa) and Kenya (682 kilometres)

Trade and Business Organisations (Somalia)
- Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
- Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)
- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
- IORA
- COMESA-EAC-SADC
Tripartite Free Trade Agreement

- African Development Bank
- African Union
- AUDA-NEPAD
- Economic Commission for Africa
Somali
Students
- Masters: Business in Africa, Transport and Logistics in Africa
- Doctorate in African Business

Iman (former top-model and Somali businesswoman)

- Somali population: 14.3 million people
- 1975: 3.3 million people
- Somali Population density: 19.21 inhabitants / km²
- 24% of Somalis live in urban areas
- Area of Somalia: 637,657 km²
- Somalia has the longest coastline in continental Africa (3,025
kilometres)
- Bajuni Islands
- Archipelago of Saad ad-Din
- Somali relief consists of plateaus, plains and highlands

- Somalia has a strategic position: the mouth of Bab el Mandeb in the
Red Sea and the
Suez Canal
- Somalia is located in the Horn of Africa, Gulf of Aden (north), Guardafui Channel of the Indian Ocean
- Somalia is a Federal Republic
- Somalia obtained its Independence from the United Kingdom in 1960
- Civil war since 1991
- Somali Telephone code: 252
- Somali Internet domain: .so
- Currency of Somalia: Somali Shilling
- The US dollar is widely accepted as a means of exchange
Somali main ethnicities:
85% of the population are Somali.
The largest ethnic minority group in Somalia are Bantu (slave descendants)
Official languages of Somalia: Somali and Arabic
- Somali alphabet
Religion in Somalia: Sunni Islam
- School of Islamic Jurisprudence: Shafi'i
Somali regions:
The 18 Somali regions are (in brackets, the capital):

- Awdal (Baki)
- Bakool (Oddur)
- Banaadir (Mogadishu)
- Bari (Bender Cassim)
- Bay (Baidoa)
- Galguduud (Dusa Mareb)
- Gedo (Garbahaarey)
- Hiiraan (Beledweyne)
- Jubbada Dhexe (Bu'aale)
- Jubbada Hoose (Kismaayo)
- Mudug (Galcayo)
- Nugaal (Garoowe)
- Sanaag (Erigavo)
- Shabeellaha Dhexe (Giohar)
- Shabeellaha Hoose (Merca)
- Sool (Laascaanood)
- Togdheer (Burao)
- Woqooyi Galbeed (Hargeisa)
Somali autonomous regions
- Northern Somalia is divided into the autonomous regions of:
- Puntland (Autonomous State)
- Somaliland (capital: Hargeisa, self-proclaimed sovereign state in
1991, but not recognised)
- Galmudug (centre of Somalia, capital: Galcayo, self-proclaimed
state in 2006)
- Jubaland / Azenie (southern, self-proclaimed state in 2010)
- Punt (capital: Garoowe, self-proclaimed in 1998)
- Maakhir (capital: Badhan, self-proclaimed state in 2007)
- Himan and Heeb (Self-proclaimed State)
- Soul, Sanaag and Cayn
- Awdal
Some Somali territories are controlled by Islamist groups Al-Shabbaab and Ahlu
Sunna Waljama'a
Higher Education in Somalia
Somalia
Somalia
Somalia (c) Africa - EENI Global Business School
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