Somalia Green Party Somalia Green Party The Somalia Green Party (SGP) is the local green party of Somalia. It has an environmentalist focus. The SGP is a member of the Horn of African Greens in the Federation of Green Parties of Africa, which includes the national green parties in the other Horn of Africa states of Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia. The association has its headquarters in Mogadishu and Jilib in southern Somalia. Plans are also in the works to open up new SGP branches in the autonomous northern Puntland and Somaliland regions, as well as the southernmost Kismayo area. Additionally, the party has
Geography of Somalia the northeast, "Boswellia" and "Commiphora" trees are sources, respectively, of the frankincense and myrrh for which Somalia has been known since ancient times. A broad plateau encompassing the northern city of Hargeysa, which receives comparatively heavy rainfall, is covered naturally by woodland (much of which has been degraded by overgrazing) and in places by extensive grasslands. Parts of this area have been under cultivation since the 1930s, producing sorghum and maize; in the 1990s it constituted the only significant region of sedentary cultivation outside southwestern Somalia. The Haud south of Hargeysa is covered mostly by a semiarid woodland of scattered