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In early 1991, the Somali Postal Service had 100 post offices, with a total staff of between 1,665 [2] to 2,165 personnel. [5] The national postal infrastructure was later completely destroyed during the civil war, with Somali Postal officially suspending operations in October 1991. [6]
Mogadishu, [a] locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Ocean for millennia and has an estimated urban population of 2,610,483.
Somalia is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It has maintained a healthy informal economy , based mainly on livestock , remittance / money transfer companies and telecommunications . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Due to a dearth of formal government statistics and the recent civil war , it is difficult to gauge the size or growth of the economy.
The Embassy of the United States of America to Somalia is a diplomatic mission of the United States in Mogadishu, Somalia from 1960 to 1991. In 1957, the US opened a consulate-general in Mogadishu—the capital of the Trust Territory of Somalia , a UN trusteeship under Italian administration.
Jowhar (Somali: Jowhar, Arabic: جوهر, Italian: Giohar) is the capital city of Hirshabelle state of Somalia. Jowhar is also the administrative capital of Middle Shabelle region of Somalia. Along with Baidoa, it used to form the joint administrative capital of the Transitional Federal Government, which it captured from the Islamic Courts Union.
Aden Adde International Airport (Somali: Garoonka Caalamiga Ee Aadan Cadde, Arabic: مطار آدم عدي الدولي) (IATA: MGQ, ICAO: HCMM), formerly known as Mogadishu International Airport, is an international airport serving Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. It is named after Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, the first President of Somalia.
Prior to the civil war, Mogadishu was known as the White pearl of the Indian Ocean. Mogadishu (Somali: Muqdisho, popularly Xamar; Arabic: مقديشو) is the largest city in Somalia and the nation's capital. Located in the coastal Benadir region on the Indian Ocean, the city has served as an important port for centuries.
Rank Region HDI (2022) Low Human Development Index 1 Banadir () : 0.459 2 Woqooyi Galbeed: 0.457 3 Sanaag: 0.448 4 Sahil: 0.442 5 Bari: 0.429 6 Awdal: 0.401 7