Here, pirates are heroes, white-collar professions that everyone envies. This is the place where Zheng He, the ancient navigator of our country, once visited, and it is also the place where the Black Eagle fell.
The Federal Republic of Somalia, with a total area of about 640,000 square kilometers, is about the same size as Afghanistan (Afghanistan has a population of 40 million, compared to 15 million in Somalia), and its area is second only to Russia in Europe.
As a country with the longest coastline on the African continent, Somalia has the advantage of developing abroad.
Across the sea is one of the richest countries in Asia: the Gulf States. Not only can these oil-rich countries be an exporter of cheap goods and labor from Somalia, but they also have easy access to cheap oil from the Middle East.
However, Somalia now exports more than camels, but pirates.
Piracy in Somalia has developed a well-established industrial chain. This is a group of organized, disciplined, professional, and ticket-tearing pirates.
Somalia is one of the least economically developed countries in the world, with an economy dominated by animal husbandry and the largest camel breeding in the world.
Somali agriculture is mainly found in the Shabelle and Juba river basins in the south. The arable land area of the country is 8.2 million hectares, and the arable land area per capita has 8 mu, but the developed area is only 1 million hectares. Somalia's annual per capita food possession is only 31 catties.
Located in the Horn of East Africa, facing the busy waters of the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea, Somalia is geographically important and is a battleground for the great powers.
Historically, the Somali settlements did not form a unified state, and the later independent Somalia was also established under the British Mandate.
In 1973, the Swedish oil company claimed to have discovered oil resources in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia.
The indigenous people of this desert are Somalis, an area controlled by Ethiopia before Somalia became independent.
The Ogaden region's hazy oil resources have led Somalia's rulers to think they have found a way to become rich. He brazenly launched a war against Ethiopia.
But with the support of the Soviet Union, Cuba and even Israel, Somalia suffered a crushing defeat and lost 1 3 of its army combat personnel. For the sake of this war, Somalia has also emptied its family.
Ironically, not a single drop of oil was produced in the Ogaden region until the end of the war.
With the fall of the Barre regime, Somalia began to descend into an endless civil war.
The people, who had no way out, made a living as pirates.
Today, it is still in a state of fragmentation, and the territory of Somaliland, Puntland, and southwestern Somalia are all substantially independent.
The so-called federation ** actually controls less than 1 3 of the country's land area.