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    In 2017 a drought ravaged Somalia that has left more than 6 million people, or half the country's population, facing food shortages with several water...
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  • efforts. 2017 Somali drought Food security Water security Horn of Africa drought (2020–present) Climate change in Somalia "Worsening drought affects 2...
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    predicted. The drought is preceded by the 2011 East Africa drought and the 2017 Somali drought, and is caused by the El Niño effect. The negative conditions...
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    severe drought affected the entire East African region. Said to be "the worst in 60 years", the drought caused a severe food crisis across Somalia, Djibouti...
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    Somali Civil War 2017 Somali drought 2017 Somali presidential election 2017 Somaliland presidential election 2018 Somali First Division 2019 Somali First...
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  • The Oromo–Somali clashes flared up in December 2016 following territorial disputes between Oromia region and Somali region's Government in Ethiopia. Hundreds...
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    A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions.: 1157  A drought can last for days, months or years. Drought often has large impacts on the ecosystems...
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    bombings, Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed declared three days of mourning. During the summer of 2011, the East African region faced a drought and...
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    The Somali Civil War (Somali: Dagaalkii Sokeeye ee Soomaaliya; Arabic: الحرب الأهلية الصومالية al-ḥarb al-’ahliyya aṣ-ṣūmāliyya) is an ongoing civil war...
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    List of famines (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from January 2017)
    Bengal famine Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union Famine in India Famines in the Czech lands Famines in Ethiopia Great Bengal famine of...
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    The Somali Civil War (2009–present) is the ongoing phase of the Somali Civil War which is concentrated in southern and central Somalia. It began in late...
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    Russia–Somalia relations (Russian: Российско-сомалийские отношения) is the bilateral relationship between Russia and Somalia. A Somali Embassy currently...
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    Siad Barre (category CS1 Somali-language sources (so))
    new writing system for the Somali language, and anti-tribalism. The Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party became Somalia's vanguard party in 1976, and...
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  • 1991, Extreme weather impacted the country, with severe drought in 2011 and 2017. Extended droughts, flash floods and cyclones, have become more frequent...
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  • war in Somalia led to a large number of Somali immigrants, comprising the majority of the current Somali population in the UK. British Somalis are one...
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    Waddani (category CS1 Somali-language sources (so))
    Party (Somali: Xisbiga Waddani, lit. 'Patriotic Party'), sometimes referred to as the Waddani National Party and better known by its shortened Somali form...
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    based in Somalia and active elsewhere in East Africa. It is actively involved in the ongoing Somali Civil War and incorporates elements of Somali nationalism...
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    of 2017, parts of South Sudan experienced a famine following several years of instability in the country's food supply caused by war and drought. The...
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    sent by Somalis-based abroad to relatives in Somalia. This accounts for 20%-50% of the Somali economy. Dahabshiil is the largest of the Somali money transfer...
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    The Western Somali Liberation Front (Somali: Jabhadda Xoreynta Somali Galbeed; abbreviated WSLF) was a Somali movement fighting in eastern Ethiopia to...
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    al Barbar ("Land of the Berbers"). It is also known as the Somali Peninsula, or in the Somali language as Geeska Afrika or Jasiiradda Soomaali. In other...
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    Fafan (Somali: Faafan) is a zone in Somali Region of Ethiopia. It was previously known as the Jijiga zone, so named after its largest city, Jijiga. Other...
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    (Somali: Jubbaland, Arabic: جوبالاند, Italian: Oltregiuba), the Juba Valley (Somali: Dooxada Jubba), is a Federal Member State in southern Somalia. Jubba...
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  • (in Somali). January 23, 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2020. "Boorame: Dad Loo Xidhay Shil Baabuur oo Dhimasho Sababay". Wargeyska Dawan (in Somali). February...
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    Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame (category Government ministers of Somalia)
    1968) is a Somali politician and a constitutional expert. He is currently the leader of the Wadajir Party. He served as a member of the Somali Parliament...
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    in traditional Somali music Abdullahi Ahmed Jama: Former Minister of Justice, former commander of the Somali National Army of Somalia and the President...
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    the course of the 16th century, Somali-Portuguese tensions would remain high and the increased contact between Somali sailors and Ottoman corsairs worried...
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    Abdirahman Saylici (category Articles containing Somali-language text)
    Abdirahman Abdillahi Ismail Saylici (Somali: Cabdiraxmaan Cabdilaahi Ismaaciil Saylici, Arabic: عبد الرحمن عبد الله إسماعيل زيلعي) (born 28 October 1956)...
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    central government of Somalia collapsed in 1991, the once firmly regulated Somali charcoal trade reopened. In the 1990s, the Somali Civil War, destructive...
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