Somalia is in the current news. Today (Feb 23) twenty-three ships from seven nations are preparing to evacuate U.N. peace keeping troops from Somalia. This report gives a brief overview of Somalia. Somalia's proper name is the Somali Democratic Republic, which is a state in northeast Africa stretching from the Equator to the Red Sea. Somalia occupies most of the Horn of Africa. Somalia is surrounded on the north by Gulf of Aden, in the …showed first 75 words of 947 total…

…showed last 75 words of 947 total…not expect as high a level of emergency food assistance in 1995. Somalia is a country influenced by many nations, a country of tradition and a country of civil unrest. It waits to see the next chapter in its ever changing history. "Encyclopedia Britannica, Micropedia" Encyclopedia Inc. (1975) "Encyclopedia Britannica, Macropedia" Encyclopedia Inc. (1975) "Army Area Handbook of Somalia" U.S. Dept. of the Army (1993) "Webster's Atlas" Hammond Inc. (1973) "Transcript of Agency for International Developement's" Sustainable Developement Request, (1995)