Africa EENI Global Business School

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

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

Iman Top Model and Somali Businesswoman

Trade and Business Organisations (Somalia)

  1. Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
  2. Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)
  3. Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
  4. IORA
  5. COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Agreement

COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Agreement (Africa)

  1. African Development Bank
  2. African Union
  3. AUDA-NEPAD
  4. Economic Commission for Africa

Somalia: Business Global Trade Somali Students

  1. Masters: Business in Africa, Transport and Logistics in Africa
  2. Doctorate in African Business

Somali Students (Business, Foreign Trade)

Iman (former top-model and Somali businesswoman)

Study in East Africa (Master Business) Burundi, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, the Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda

  1. Somali population: 14.3 million people
    1. 1975: 3.3 million people
    2. Somali Population density: 19.21 inhabitants / km²
    3. 24% of Somalis live in urban areas
  2. Area of Somalia: 637,657 km²
    1. Somalia has the longest coastline in continental Africa (3,025 kilometres)
    2. Bajuni Islands
    3. Archipelago of Saad ad-Din
    4. Somali relief consists of plateaus, plains and highlands

Study Online in Somalia (Business)

  1. Somalia has a strategic position: the mouth of Bab el Mandeb in the Red Sea and the Suez Canal
  2. Somalia is located in the Horn of Africa, Gulf of Aden (north), Guardafui Channel of the Indian Ocean
  3. Somalia is a Federal Republic
  4. Somalia obtained its Independence from the United Kingdom in 1960
  5. Civil war since 1991
  6. Somali Telephone code: 252
  7. Somali Internet domain: .so
  8. Currency of Somalia: Somali Shilling
    1. 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

  1. Somali alphabet

Religion in Somalia: Sunni Islam

  1. School of Islamic Jurisprudence: Shafi'i

Somali regions:

The 18 Somali regions are (in brackets, the capital):

Somali regions (source: Deudora)

  1. Awdal (Baki)
  2. Bakool (Oddur)
  3. Banaadir (Mogadishu)
  4. Bari (Bender Cassim)
  5. Bay (Baidoa)
  6. Galguduud (Dusa Mareb)
  7. Gedo (Garbahaarey)
  8. Hiiraan (Beledweyne)
  9. Jubbada Dhexe (Bu'aale)
  10. Jubbada Hoose (Kismaayo)
  11. Mudug (Galcayo)
  12. Nugaal (Garoowe)
  13. Sanaag (Erigavo)
  14. Shabeellaha Dhexe (Giohar)
  15. Shabeellaha Hoose (Merca)
  16. Sool (Laascaanood)
  17. Togdheer (Burao)
  18. Woqooyi Galbeed (Hargeisa)

Somali autonomous regions

  1. Northern Somalia is divided into the autonomous regions of:
    1. Puntland (Autonomous State)
    2. Somaliland (capital: Hargeisa, self-proclaimed sovereign state in 1991, but not recognised)
  2. Galmudug (centre of Somalia, capital: Galcayo, self-proclaimed state in 2006)
  3. Jubaland / Azenie (southern, self-proclaimed state in 2010)
  4. Punt (capital: Garoowe, self-proclaimed in 1998)
  5. Maakhir (capital: Badhan, self-proclaimed state in 2007)
  6. Himan and Heeb (Self-proclaimed State)
  7. Soul, Sanaag and Cayn
  8. Awdal

Some Somali territories are controlled by Islamist groups Al-Shabbaab and Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a

Higher Education in Somalia

Business in Africa (Spanish) Somalia Trade and Business in Africa (French) Somalia Study Master Business in Portuguese Somalia



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