Today we went over the maps. Then other groups presented.
Somalia
- Socialist gov. put in place
- rebels defected Barre in 1991
- after this chaos and anarchy followed
- Somali National Gov. is dominated by the north
- United Somali Congress is dominated by the south
- US and the UN has started to try to help but later left because of causualties in 1995
- people have been dying because of health and starvation
- Black Hawk Down is a movie based on 123 sodiers were after 2 lieutenats but they were met by Samalis with firepower
- Operation was supposd to last 1 hour but it turned into an overnight standoff
- There are pirates on the East coast of Africa and they say they are protecting the water of Somalia
- They are continuing to expand their piracy
- 14 attpemps at gov. since 1991
- they have had a stable gov. since Sept. 12, 2012
- have new president since this time
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