How to prevent your baby and young child from choking: 1  NEVER give a baby or small child gum. 2  Teach your baby from the start to eat slowly and chew his food carefully. Many small children will stuff their mouths and that's not ok. 3  Know that almost all candy poses a choking risk.  Many of the most overlooked baby dangers are also choking hazards.
Located in the continent of Africa, Somalia covers 627,337 square kilometers of land and 10,320 square kilometers of water, making it the 44th largest nation in the world with a total area of 637,657 square kilometers. Somalia became an independent state in 1960, after gaining its sovereignty from Italy.
On this date in 1960, Somalia gained its independence from Britain. Situated in the horn of East Africa, early on Somalia's economy was based upon the nomadic herding of animals. From the time of Americaâs Reconstruction (1870s) until World War II (1942), Britain gained control over the Italian portions of Somalia.our years later, Somalia fought with Ethiopia over the Ogaden region. The country was run by a civilian government for the first few years, until the 1969 military coup of General Muhammed Siad Barre. Siad Barre held power for more than two decades.