Saudi’s rinderpest ban exposed Somalia’s deep dependence on the Gulf

Evidence

A year later this vital trade received a rude shock when the main importing country, Saudi Arabia, declared a rinderpest ban on Somali livestock. This unanticipated problem underlined the extent of Somalia’s dependence for trade as well as for aid on the Saudi kingdom, whose cultural pressure was evident in government campaigns to promote Arabic teaching for adults as well as children. The other main source of private-sector foreign exchange was provided by the remittances from migrant workers in the Gulf states in Somalia’s ‘muscle-drain’, which again reflected the country’s growing dependence on the Arab League which it had opportunistically joined in 1974. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 607

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Moscow’s tilt toward Ethiopia drove Somalia to seek Saudi arms — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 564; Post-Ogaden Somalia shifted from Soviet arms to broad Western and Arab food aid dependency — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 609; Contemporary Somalia faces combined tribal, regional, and global obstacles

Related

• Moscow’s tilt toward Ethiopia drove Somalia to seek Saudi arms (similarity 0.83)
• Post-Ogaden Somalia shifted from Soviet arms to broad Western and Arab food aid dependency (similarity 0.81)
• Somalia adopted Scientific Socialism partly due to Soviet arms dependence (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Post-Ogaden Somalia shifted from Soviet arms to broad Western and Arab food aid dependency #expands (0.55) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 609
• Contemporary Somalia faces combined tribal, regional, and global obstacles #expands (0.50)