The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Somalia:
Somalia – country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Guardafui Channel and Somali Sea to the east, and Kenya to the southwest. Somalia has the longest coastline on the mainland, [1] and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands. [2] Hot conditions prevail year-round, along with periodic monsoon winds and irregular rainfall. [3]
Administrative divisions of Somalia
The Republic of Somalia is a member of: [6]
Somalia is one of only 7 U.N member countries, which are not a member state of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
Local government in Somalia
Lower Shabelle is an administrative region (gobol) in southern Somalia.
Bay is an administrative region (gobol) in southern Somalia.
Lower Juba is an administrative region (gobol) in southern Somalia. With its capital at Kismayo, it lies in the autonomous Jubaland region. It has green forests and wildlife including lions, giraffes, hippos, crocodiles, and hyenas.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Botswana:
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Central African Republic:
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Chad:
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Comoros:
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Ivory Coast:
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Equatorial Guinea:
Ethiopia is a landlocked sovereign country located in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, South Sudan to the south-west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the north-east. Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in the world and Africa's second-most populous nation. Ethiopia has yielded some of humanity's oldest traces, making the area important in the history of human evolution. Recent studies claim that the vicinity of present-day Addis Ababa was the point from which human beings migrated around the world. Ethiopian dynastic history traditionally began with the reign of Emperor Menelik I in 1000 BC. The roots of the Ethiopian state are similarly deep, dating with unbroken continuity to at least the Aksumite Empire and its predecessor state, D`mt. After a period of decentralized power in the 18th and early 19th centuries known as the Zemene Mesafint, the country was reunited in 1855 by Kassa Hailu, who became Emperor Tewodros II, beginning Ethiopia's modern history. Ethiopia's borders underwent significant territorial expansion to its modern borders for the rest of the century, especially by Emperor Menelik II and Ras Gobena, culminating in its victory over the Italians at the Battle of Adwa in 1896 with the military leadership of Ras Makonnen, and ensuring its sovereignty and freedom from colonization. It was occupied by Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy from 1936 to 1941, ending with its liberation by British Empire and Ethiopian Patriot forces. Its eastern border also changed in 1950 from the former 1908 Convention Line to the subsequent provisional administrative line.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Guinea-Bissau:
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Kenya:
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Madagascar:
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Mauritania:
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Mozambique:
Federal Republic of Nigeria – sovereign country located in West Africa. Nigeria is a federal constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal Capital Territory. Nigeria borders the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast lies on the Gulf of Guinea, part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the south. The capital of Nigeria is Abuja.
The Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked sovereign country located in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. Home to approximately 10.1 million people, Rwanda supports the densest population in continental Africa, with most of the population engaged in subsistence agriculture. A verdant country of fertile and hilly terrain, the small republic bears the title "Land of a Thousand Hills". The country attracted international concern for the infamous Rwandan genocide of 1994.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Senegal:
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Seychelles:
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Sudan: