Somalia
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Somalia is a country in East Africa. Its neighbours are Ethiopia and Djibouti on the north and mid-west, and Kenya on its south-west. The Gulf of Aden is on its east. The capital is called Mogadishu.
Because of political instabilities and fighting between different parties, there is currently no government in Somalia. This has been the case since the early 1990s. People in part of Somalia have made their own government, and call it the Republic of Somaliland, but no other country in the world calls Somaliland a country.
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