Angolan Civil War - History

Guerre civile angolaise - Histoire

Civil War warlords famine pirates all

images most commonly associated with

Somalia in people's minds the country

once labeled the Switzerland of Africa

has suffered a steady and tragic decline

for decades but we need the prolonged

suffering and chaos is a land rich in

history and heritage and the people

struggling to maintain a semblance of

normality in the absence of estates in

the Horn of Africa Somalia is the

continents most easterly country it has

the longest coastline in mainland Africa

stretching more than 3,000 kilometers

along the Indian Ocean the Gulf of Aden

and the Red Sea it's location turned

Somalia into a strategically important

trading center in the ancient world but

the history of Somalia dates back much

further to some of the earliest human

settlements in the world