Why were Somalis cursed with dry land of death and drought?

[Lilafrombole]

It's possible to re-green Somalia...look what they did in Tigray in Ethiopia. All that is needed a stable government that can implement change.

 

[Zayd]

One word. PERMACULTURE.

 

[Mumin]

If libya and israel can turn desert in to greenery farmland.

We got a shot but only it can be done federal/state level those ppl that live in those regions that want to develop them.

Do you really think prez and pm let alone illiterate MPs are going to adress those concern. They rather split the aid money.

 

[Aaegal]

North of Hargeisa

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Are each of those dots villages?

 

[merka]

Are each of those dots villages?

Yes

 

[Soulei]

Lol Somalia has plenty of arable land. Blame the people not the country.

Exactly. If Middle Eastern countries were able to turn their sand dunes into this

Then Somalia surely can. However corruption is rampant and the economy is close to nonexistent there, not to mention the large amount of deforestation and desertification that has taken place.

 

[Muwahid]

Somalia. A beautiful land, mashAllah.

 

[Apollo]

Without the Ethiopian Highlands acting as a barrier and the arid Somali lands acting as a barrier, the Horn would have been populated by Nilotics and Bantus only.

So thank god for those two natural barriers.

 

[illiyas]

I was talking about this subject with my mother today. When she was growing up in burco. People used to be scared of the miyi because of thick forest and lions. And nobody used to cut trees only a few ppl who worked for the city used to collect some from mountains and animals were not allowed to roam the city the local government would fine ppl and second offense they were collected and slaughtered for the army. And it use to rain all the time. The people are not the same and there's no government

 

[bluebird]

Blame pastoralists all they know is take take take.

 

[DuctTape]

 

[Xaagi-Cagmadigtee]

Our topography saved us from annihilation by the Bantu expansion that started 3.000 years ago. I for one am thankful for the wasteland we call home. Imagine if Bantus were geeljire, we'd be extinct like the dodo.

They were no stronger or more warrior-like; they just had the numbers over us.

 

[Prince of Lasanod]

Somalia was green

No, it has been semi arid for the past 1000-1500 years. Before that, yes.

 

[Prince of Lasanod]

Somalia is cursed by the Ethiopian highlands that create a rain shadow and capture much of the moisture that may have made Somalia as green as South Sudan. The only district in Somalia that averages above 600 mm of rain per year is Badhaadhe in the extreme south. Even there, rates of evaporation are very high and drought is sometimes severe. The only option Somalis have to secure a stable environment is to live alongside the river valleys. Everywhere else is marginal and will become even more marginal as time passes.

Time to develop nuclear weapons and destroy these mountains stealing our rain.

 

[McLovin]

It didnt always look like that. The charcoal trade has wrecked havoc on the environment, Similar thing in Haiti, another goernmentless shithole

 

[Jujuman]

Somalia is cursed by the Ethiopian highlands that create a rain shadow and capture much of the moisture that may have made Somalia as green as South Sudan. The only district in Somalia that averages above 600 mm of rain per year is Badhaadhe in the extreme south. Even there, rates of evaporation are very high and drought is sometimes severe. The only option Somalis have to secure a stable environment is to live alongside the river valleys. Everywhere else is marginal and will become even more marginal as time passes.

Somalia is cursed by the Ethiopian highlands that create a rain shadow and capture much of the moisture that may have made Somalia as green as South Sudan. The only district in Somalia that averages above 600 mm of rain per year is Badhaadhe in the extreme south. Even there, rates of evaporation are very high and drought is sometimes severe. The only option Somalis have to secure a stable environment is to live alongside the river valleys. Everywhere else is marginal and will become even more marginal as time passes.

I knew it had something to do with those damned Habash. You make a good case for lebensraum...

 

[DrippinglyWet]

We don't only live in Mudug and Galgaduud. And we got rivers and lush green land. Say MashAllah.

Yaa damn right Masha'allah, God bless our ancestors

 

[Keyser Söze]

The Land is blessed MashaAllah, also massive untapped water resources underground. You can, in some parts of Somalia dig with hands and water will bubble out!

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-17775211

 

[Muwahid]

I would love to build a wooden holiday home that blended in seamlessly with the terrain on top of one of those mountains.

 

[Prince of Lasanod]

True it is due to the Ahmar mountains. They need to be demolished.

Apparently the reason why the coast in Sanaag is also very dry is due to the very same reason.

"The Cal Madow area in northern Somalia consists of a coastal plain bordering the Gulf of Aden, a hilly sub-coastal zone of varying width, an extensive block of steep limestone escarpment reaching well above 2000m and an uplifted plateau lying to the south. The plateau dips to the south-east and has substantial areas of gypsum. The climate is influenced by the monsoon winds. The erratic rainfall in the coastal and sub-coastal zone is less than 100mm per year, while the upper part of the escarpment is the wettest area in Somalia, receiving a mean annual rainfall of over 700mm. A major part of the rain probably falls during the winter months, during the north-east monsoon, when mists are also frequent. Rain falling on the escarpment is drained to the north and seasonal streams run across the coastal plain, whilst the plateau itself is in rain shadow."
http://www.worldg18somalia.org/pdf/Somali_10EnvAss40day.pdf

We really are cursed.