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10 00 N, 49 00 E
Regional Information

Eastern Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, east of Ethiopia

Capital City

Ljubljana
Regional Relationships

Ethiopian forces invaded southern Somalia and routed Islamist Courts from Mogadishu in January 2007; "Somaliland" secessionists provide port facilities in Berbera to landlocked Ethiopia and have established commercial ties with other regional states; "Puntland" and "Somaliland" "governments" seek international support in their secessionist aspirations and overlapping border claims; the undemarcated former British administrative line has little meaning as a political separation to rival clans within Ethiopia's Ogaden and southern Somalia's Oromo region; Kenya works hard to prevent the clan and militia fighting in Somalia from spreading south across the border, which has long been open to nomadic pastoralists.
Environmental: Goals/Challenges/Agreements

Challenges

Famine; use of contaminated water contributes to human health problems; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification

International Agreements

Party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection
Humanitarian Projects
Native Languages

Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English
Climate

Principally desert; northeast monsoon (December to February), moderate temperatures in north and hot in south; southwest monsoon (May to October), torrid in the north and hot in the south, irregular rainfall, hot and humid periods (tangambili) between monsoons