A Look at the Horn of Africa’s Al Shabab, the Youth.
A Map of the Horn of Africa. The Indian Ocean remains an international trade route, with Mogadishu being a coastal city, piracy was launched from Mogadishu for hundreds of years by British pirates, French pirates and other European pirates and powers. The modern piracy that is being perpetrated by the Somali’s is partially a European creation with impoverished Africans and some truly criminal African elements taking up the pirate trade as a viable means of economic sustenance. The effect piracy has had on Somalia and is still having is nothing short of anarchy and nihilism. Due to its arid climate, Somalia is a very infertile country with few natural resources. Animal husbandry is the most important economic sector. The war of 1991 virtually crippled the economy and it has yet to recover. The bungling of the Americans in the armed conflict, in the early part of the 90s only worsened the Somali problem. The many clans and sub clans vying for power in Somalia...