10 Facts about Somalia
When eating, people in Somalia scoop the food from their bowl using their first three fingers. Some will roll a banana leaf and use that for scooping. Urban Somalis will use silverware while dining, but many would rather use their fingers.
Nomads in Somalia consider the country’s pastureland available to all. If a family digs a water well, it is not considered the property of all. It would just belong to the family.
Since the beginning of the Civil War in the early 1990’s, not one tourist visited Somalia until 2010, when a man from Canada Mike Spencer Brown arrived, shocking authorities by declaring himself a tourist.
The only industries that exist in Somalia are fish and meat canneries, mild processing plants, leather tanning factories, and electrical and pharmaceutical factories.
More than half of the residents of Somalia are self-employed. They are farmers, herders, and independent business owners
Women in Somalia have shown a remarkable adaptability and talent for business. Many international organizations have helped them with their education and job training.
The 2011 famine in Southern Somalia was the first in that region in over 30 years.
About one in 8 children in Somalia is acutely malnourished.
Today, over one million people in the country are in desperate need of emergency food assistance.
Over 73 percent of Somalis live on less than $2 U.S. Dollars per day
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