CULTURE AND TRADE OF SOMALIA

Culture and Trade Of Somalia



Culture and Trade Of Somalia

Abstract

The United States is stepping up security cooperation with Yemen following the December 25 incident, involving a Nigerian who is reported to have said the plot was hatched in Yemen.

Robow caused concern because al Shabaab is an effective force that has seized large areas of south and central Somalia.

Its successes, like those of AQAP, have helped to inspire a small but enthusiastic global community of al Qaeda supporters.

According to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Yemen hosted a population of refugees and asylum seekers numbering approximately 124,600 in 2007. Refugees and asylum seekers living in Yemen were predominately from Somalia (110,600), Iraq (11,000) and Ethiopia (2,000). There are also about 70,000 Iraqis presently living in Yemen. UNHCR estimates that in 2008 more than 50,000 Somalis reached Yemen. Yemen's civil war has forced at least 175,000 Yemenis to flee their homes.

Introduction

Arab traders have long operated in Southeast Asia, trading in spices, timber and textiles. Most of the prominent Indonesians, Malaysians and Singaporeans of Arab descent have their origins in southern Yemen in the Hadramawt coastal region. As many as 4 million Indonesians are of Hadrami descent and today there are almost 10,000 Hadramis in Singapore.[45] The Hadramis emigrated not only to Southeast Asia but also to East Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Maqil were a collection of Arab Bedouin tribes of Yemeni origin who migrated westwards via Egypt. Several groups of Yemeni Arabs turned south to Mauritania and by the end of the 17th century century, they dominated the entire country.

The Yemeni diaspora is largely concentrated in the United Kingdom, where between 70,000 and 80,000 Yemenis reside, also just over 15,000 - 20,000 Yemenis reside in the United States and 2,000 live in France.[51] Saudi Arabia expelled 800,000 Yemenis in 1990 and 1991 to punish Yemen for its opposition to the Gulf War against Iraq.

Many people believe that Somalia and Yemen economy has been in chaos since the collapse of its national government in 1991. We take a comparative institutional approach to examine Somalia's performance relative to other African countries both when Somalia and Yemen had a government and during its extended period of anarchy. We find that although Somalia and Yemen is poor, its relative economic performance has improved during its period of statelessness. We describe how Somalia and Yemen has provided basic law and order and a currency, enabling the country to achieve the coordination that has led to improvements in its standard of living.

Somalia and Yemenhas lacked a national government since the fall of Siad Barre's dictatorship in 1991. Rival factions immediately plunged the country into civil war in failed attempts to install themselves as the new national government. U.S. and UN humanitarian and military intervention from 1993 through 1995 failed to restore peace. In fact, the Somalis united against the foreign presence and eventually forced the U.S. to withdraw. From 1995 through 2005 episodes of criminal behavior and violence occurred, but not at the ...