Somalia: The Challenge in Resilience Between Dry and Wet Seasons
Somalia: The Challenge in Resilience Between Dry and Wet Seasons Somalia is a country located in the horn of Africa’s continent. It borders the Gulf of Aden in the north, Djibouti in the northwest, Ethiopia in the west, Kenya in the southwest and the Indian Ocean in the east, and it shares maritime boundaries with Yemen. If it is not the first, it is the second country in the region with the longest coastline (Africa). In fact, the country has two rivers, Jubba and Shabelle, which originate in Ethiopia and flow to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, respectively. Somalia’s economy is based on two sectors: agriculture and livestock. People who live around the two rivers plant crops, taking advantage of the rivers’ water flow to cultivate and farm agricultural crops. Although some of the residents in that area are Agro farming and do both cultivation and livestock herding. The country is divided into two seasonal climates, northern and the centre part of the country is semiarid and the p