Why don’t Somalis move to the coast ?

[ImanStan001]

The north west is hot not the north east.
Bosaso is mild compared to Berbera and saylac.
Xaafuun is cooler than xamar.

Djibouti is the hottest country on earth

 

[reer]

The country was never a desert to began with. If you hear stories of our parents and grand parents they will tell you it used to be lush green tropical grassland savanna with scattered trees, shrubs and teeming with wildlife. My own father told me when he was young in Hargeisa he used to see elephants, giraffes, rhinos, buffalos, lions, zebras, leopard's, cheetahs, ostriches and all kinds of antelopes. This all changed due to conflicts, overgrazing, cutting down trees for charcoal which led to the loss of wildlife, soil erosion, increased temperature, decreased rainfall, increased floods (taking the top soil and throwing it into the ocean), droughts, famine and etc. I know the situation in the south is even more severe because the Shabelle river used to reach Jilib and now I'm hearing it ends at Afgooye or Balcad. The charcoal industry in Jubbaland is crazy which is deteriorating the Northern Zanzibar–Inhambane coastal forest mosaic. I heard Gedo region used to have high rainfall but because of loss of many trees and overgrazing, the rainfall has gone through a drastic decrease and transformed Gedo into becoming the hottest region in Somalia even surpassing the Bari region.

Instead of pursuing people to all move to the coastlines. How about we encourage strong education to the rural communities who are mostly effected with hunger and drought? Encourage them to plant more trees, increase a sense of love with the environment, practise rotional grazing to regenerate damaged grasslands, encourage them to farm, store rainwater in the times of rainy seasons, protect the loss of wild life and discourage poaching and cutting down trees for charcoal. We could restore the lost flourishing eco-system we once had and maybe one day we will have tourists to visit our newly created national parks, inshallah and promote food self-sufficiency. No more importing food from other countries and change the perceive image that our interior is some desert when historically it never was.

in gedo bardera luuq are hot. they were always some of the hottest somali cities. but in garbaharey and other towns there is some elevation which gives them cooler temperature. even though the jubba valley is green alot of cities on the river (bardera luuq jilib etc) have heat that places up north dont have. and gedo has a high number of camels.
now you add droughts+deforestation+global warming+increase in population. its like a powder keg. i remember reading that approx 10 thousand relocated to gedo from west galgaduud in a specific period. for a lawless country that is A LOT.

 

[Indeed]

Around borama, is the best location in the whole of Somalia, it’s cool with breeze and it’s very chilly even cold at night. It rains a lot as well, it’s green etc, great location. Probably the coldest region in the whole country.

 

[reer]

Around borama, is the best location in the whole of Somalia, it’s cool with breeze and it’s very chilly even cold at night. It rains a lot as well, it’s green etc, great location. Probably the coldest region in the whole country.

the problem is that most of the red sea/gulf of aden coast is insanely hot.