Mucda Qoraalka
Waxaan halkan ku falanqaynayaa arrimo ka mid ah hab dhigaalka af Soomaaliga ee aan xasillayn oo u baahan in la mideeyo.
Falanqaynta iyo talooyinka aan halkan ku soo bandhigayaa, waxay ku saabsan yihiin sidii lagu xasilin lahaa ama lagu midayn lahaa qaar ka mid ah habdhigaalka af Soomaaliga; waxayna qayb ka tahay horumarinta af Soomaaliga xagga habsocodka midayntiisa (standardization) iyo casriyayntiisaba.
This paper examines three collections of poetry by Abdirahman Gaileh Mirreh (1942-2000). If anything, Mirreh can be described as a poet who uses his words to advance a more democratic, more just, simpler, and greener world, not just for humans but also for the fauna and flora. This article mainly focuses on environmental and philosophical themes developed in Mirreh’s poems from a yearning to go back to the
motherland, to a nostalgia for an undemanding lifestyle, Mirreh does not limit his poetry to one theme but rather evokes all aspects of life while still questioning them, aiming to foreground a more balanced view of Somalia and the world at large. This paper sheds light on a ‘neglected’ yet brave and daring Norwegian Somali poet by contextualizing his poetry as one driven by the idea of being a citizen of the world and the environmentalist aspects of a new greener world view.
Abdirahman Mirreh, Somali Poetry, Pastoral Poetry, Mogadishu University,
This article explores two related questions: (1) can Somalia’s public institutions be reengineered using the world’s most renowned organizational change theories? (2) where should change begin in a system protracted by corruption and constitutional unrest? Considering these two questions, the paper is divided into four parts. The first part gives a historical overview of Somalia’s immediate past and how, applying the organizational development (OD) concepts, successful interventions can be carried out in the public service sector in Somalia.
The second part presents areas of potential interventions. The third part offers, in brief, a mechanism for change evaluation. The fourth, and final, part summarizes ways OD practitioners could institutionalize change for sustainable results.
Somalia, Somali public institutions, organization development, change management in Somalia, Mogadishu University,
International judicial cooperation in criminal matters becomes more and more important for each country in the world. Somalia is no exception. In increasing number of cases, its authorities would need to turn to foreign judicial authorities to obtain necessary evidence or/and extradition of fugitives for trial or execution of a punishment imposed on them by Somali court. Nowadays, more and more criminal judges, prosecutors and investigating police officers must deal, in their daily work, with different modalities of international judicial cooperation in criminal matters. However, they face significant difficulties. The existing Somali legal framework for this cooperation is badly in need of improvement.
This article attempts to make some proposals for improvement of the Criminal Procedure Code and, particularly, the provisions of its Book V which governs the international judicial cooperation.
Somalia, judicial cooperation, extradition, letter rogatory, transfer of criminal proceedings, criminal procedure code, Mogadishu University,
Somalia-Turkey relation has been resumed when then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Mogadishu in August 2011. Turkey has recently opened a military training facility in Mogadishu. Since then, Turkey’s security engagement in Somalia created some sort of concern for the former actors in Mogadishu’s political arena. Almost all studies about this relation explore Turkey’s economic and humanitarian contributions to Somalia. Contrarily, this paper focuses on the security dimension of this relation and tries to define the security interests of Turkey in its engagement in Somalia. More on, the paper investigates the current security situation of Somalia, examines the nature of the Turkish military facility and discusses the challenges facing Turkey in Somalia.
Somalia, Security, Turkish foreign policy, Turkey in Somalia, Mogadishu University,
Somalia adopted a new federal constitution in 2012 which established a bicameral type of parliament, upper house (senate) and the lower house (the house of the people). This type of legislature is different from the traditional system of Somalia’s parliaments since independence 1960, because Somalia used to have a unicameral legislature.
This article describes the rationale for the adoption of this system and creating of the second chamber. It also highlights both the principal functions of the upper house, which is the exclusive powers of the upper
house, and shared functions with the house of the people in the light of the Provisional Constitution of the Federal Republic of Somalia. In addition, it proposes some recommendations that must be taken into consideration during the constitutional review process.
Somalia, bicameral legislature, upper house, federal system, Mogadishu University,
