ABSTRACT
Somalia is situated in the African Horn, an important strategic location overlooking the passageway between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. The Jubba and the Shabelle Rivers flow through Somalia on their way to the Indian Ocean. In the aftermath of World War II, as more and more colonies broke free of their colonial shackles, Somalia too went through similar throes, and in 1950, Italian Somalia became a United Nation trust territory. Most of the internal conflicts in Somalia during the modern era have erupted due to the uprising of one of the tribal groups against an attempt to impose a collective Somali identity and its desire to protect its self-definition and freedom as a group. Somalia then became a state controlled by a military regime. And the military government in Somalia with the support of the Soviet Union built the fourth-largest modern sophisticated army in sub-Saharan Africa.
