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Ambassadors from Finland > Current Finnish Ambassadors > Ambassador	Matti Kääriäinen
Capital city	Mogadishu
DEFINITION: The location of the seat of government.		View time series
SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of Ambassadors from Finland
countries' copyright length > Usual term of copyright protection	unknown
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Elections > Head of state	Transition
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of countries' copyright length
Flag modification	12		[122nd of 197]
DEFINITION: The date on which the nation's flag was last modified.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: Elections by country
Foreign relations > Nepal > Date of Establishment	October 24, 1984
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: Flagspot
General government final consumption expenditure > annual % growth	15.2 %		[11th of 147]
DEFINITION: Annual percentage growth of general government final consumption expenditure based on constant local currency. Aggregates are based on constant 2000 U.S. dollars. General government final consumption expenditure (general government consumption) includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees). It also includes most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation.		View time series
SOURCE: Wikipedia: Foreign relations of Nepal
General government final consumption expenditure > constant LCU	21702600000
DEFINITION: General government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption) includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees). It also includes most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. Data are in constant local currency.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
General government final consumption expenditure > current LCU	10580000000
DEFINITION: General government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption) includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees). It also includes most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. Data are in current local currency.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
General government final consumption expenditure > current US$	133,825,800 $		[112nd of 169]
DEFINITION: General government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption) includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees). It also includes most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. Data are in current U.S. dollars.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Legislative branch > A note fledgling parliament; a transitional 245-member National Assembly began to meet on 13 August 2000 in the town of Arta, Djibouti and is now based in Mogadishu
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
political parties > No party	•
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > %	7.8 %		[139th of 174]
DEFINITION: Women in parliaments are the percentage of parliamentary seats in a single or lower chamber occupied by women.		View time series
SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of political parties
Secession attempts	Somaliland
DEFINITION: Lists groups or areas that have mounted major unilateral secession attempts in selected nations since 1945.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Status	transition/anarchy
DEFINITION: Democracy: state in which democratic structures provide for an alternance of power Pseudo-Democracy: state in which there are democratic structures but without a real chance for an alternance of power Transition State: a state with a transitional structure Absolute Monarchy: a one-party state, or a state governed by an absolute monarchy or dictatorship.
SOURCE: "State Practice And International Law In Relation to unilateral Secession" by James Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge, 19 February 1997. Available online via the Department of Justice, Canada
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International Ethiopian forces invaded southern Somalia and routed Islamist Courts from Mogadishu in January 2007; "Somaliland" secessionists provide port facilities in Berbera to landlocked Ethiopia and have established commercial ties with other regional states; "Puntland" and "Somaliland" "governments" seek international support in their secessionist aspirations and overlapping border claims; the undemarcated former British administrative line has little meaning as a political separation to rival clans within Ethiopia's Ogaden and southern Somalia's Oromo region; Kenya works hard to prevent the clan and militia fighting in Somalia from spreading south across the border, which has long been open to nomadic pastoralists
DEFINITION: This entry includes a wide variety of situations that range from traditional bilateral boundary disputes to unilateral claims of one sort or another. Information regarding disputes over international terrestrial and maritime boundaries has been reviewed by the US Department of State. References to other situations involving borders or frontiers may also be included, such as resource disputes, geopolitical questions, or irredentist issues; however, inclusion does not necessarily constitute official acceptance or recognition by the US Government.
SOURCE: electionworld.org
UN membership date	20 Sep. 1960
DEFINITION: Date of United Nations Membership
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
United Nations mission http://www.traveldocs.com/so/foreign.htm http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/somalia/index.html http://www.1upinfo.com/country-guide-study/somalia/ See Kenya for details
DEFINITION: United Missions mission or approximate website
SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook

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