Somalia
Facts and historical events related to Somalia, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive and the On This Day collection.
- From today, if you're from Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, and…
- The Gulf of Guinea is currently the world’s piracy hotspot as the area witnessed 27 of the 28 incidents of…
- Twin car bombings at a busy junction in Mogadishu, Somalia, killed more than 100 people. (2022)
- These African countries don't recognize the State of Israel: (forbid passport holders and any other passpor…
- Countries with the cheapest cost to purchase 1 Gigabyte of mobile data in Africa: Sudan 🇸🇩 - 27 cents (US…
- Back to Gaddafi's 2009 UN speech. Hear him defend his Somali brothers and logically explain the reasons dri…
- The legendary David Bowe, in 1983 queries MTV on why they were not playing Black artists. One of 20th centu…
- A suicide car bombing near a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia, killed at least 20 people. (2021)
- Turkey is to completely erase all Somalia's accumulated debts to the IMF. 🇹🇷🇸🇴
- Hawa Abdi, the Somali physician known as "Mama Hawa" who sheltered tens of thousands of displaced people at… (2020)
- A truck bomb detonated in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing at least 85 people; the militant group Al-Shabaab cla… (2019)
- Following the midterm elections of 6th November, 2018, Ilhan Omar is now the first Somali to be elected to…
- Africans are now leading the world's courts of justice. The President of the International Criminal Court i…
- Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf of Somalia has just been elected President of the International Court of Justic…
- Sir Mo Farah, the Somali who left for the UK at the age of 8 to become the most successful and most decorat…
- Our heartfelt condolences to our brothers and sisters affected by the recent bombing at Mogadishu, Somalia.…
- Ilhan Omar fled the Somali civil war at 12. Now she's the first 🇸🇴-🇺🇸 Muslim legislator, covered by thi…
- Happy Birthday Iman, the iconic Somali supermodel, actress, cosmetic pioneer and founder, IMAN Cosmetics; w…
- These African countries don't recognize Israel: (forbid passport holders 🚫) Algeria🚫 Niger Chad Sudan🚫 L…
- A truck bombing by al-Shabab militants in Mogadishu killed more than 500 people, Somalia's deadliest single… (2017)
- Meet Mrs. Fadumo Dayib, 43, Somalia's first female presidential aspirant in this year's elections. Harvard…
- Al-Shabaab militants overran a Kenyan military base at El Adde in Somalia, inflicting the Kenya Defence For… (2016)
- There are about 40 million livestock in Somalia, and the nation earned $360,000,000 from livestock export i…
- Another African genius. This time a teen, daughter of Somali immigrants.
- A bomb attack on a United Nations convoy delivering food supplies in Garowe, in Somalia's Puntland region,… (2015)
- Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somali politician who served as the country's fourth prime minister, died at age 89. (2014)
- Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Somalia - all East African nations - use the Shilling as their national currenc…
- Somalia is the only country in Africa where almost the whole population has the same Somali language as its…
- Swahili is spoken in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, DR Congo, Comoros, Mozambique, Rwanda, Burundi and parts of S…
- Maplecroft Corruption Risk Index ranks Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia as the most corrupt nations…
- Prehistoric rock paintings in Somaliland over 5000 old & 100 cave/rock art sites across Somaliland needs pr…
- Somalia is the only Islamic country in the world that boasts of a 100% concentration of Sunni Muslims.
- The customary law of Somalia is known as Xeer, a polycentric legal system with no institution or lawyers to…
- Somalia was one of the nations hit by the disastrous Indian Ocean Tsunami & Earthquake of 2004. 289 people…
- Somalia is the first African nation that was used for flying warplanes by the British.
- Somalia had no formal parliament for over 2 decades after President Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991.The c…
- Most scholars believe the Ancient Land of Punt was located to the south-east of Egypt, what is today northe…
- The Socotra Archipelago, off Somalia's coast, is home to a very unusual & rare tree, The Dragon Blood tree.
- In countries like Djibouti, Mali, Somalia and Guinea female circumcision is so rife that about 9 of 10 girl…
- Fashion icon, entrepreneur & wife of musician David Bowie, Iman Abdulmajid (Somalia) was the 1st famous bla…