The freedom of assembly and demonstration are among the fundamental human rights; hence, people around the globe have these rights protected in their constitutions. However, these basic rights are infringed, in some way or other, by the governments. Evidences extracted…
Somalia occupied a secondary status in Turkish foreign policy until recently. However, the popular 2011 Erdogan visit to Mogadishu and the following wide aid campaign marked a turning point in Türkiye's Somalia policy. This study explores the evolution of Turkish-Somali…
This paper examines the association between the economic development and the levels of rule of law, political instability, and violence in the Greater Horn of Africa. Employing a descriptive-comparative methodology, the study analyzed trends of the data of the countries…
The surge in pirate attacks attributed to Somali pirates in 2010 and 2011 was recently the biggest and largely unforeseen by the international community. Albeit pirate activity already characterized the region, its marked increase shifted the piracy epicenter away from…
This paper examines how sustained public management reform impacts on quality of public service delivery in Somalia. It adopted a desk research methodology, which involves reviewing existing literature and collecting data from existing resources to study the research topic. The…
This isa comparative study on the federal provisional constitution of Somalia along with the constitutions of the Somalia member states namely Puntland, Galmudug, Jubaland, South-West State, and Hirshabelle, to determine the degree of divergence and contradictions in these constitutions. It…
Throughout his fiction, essays, and interviews, Nuruddin Farah, who was declared “persona non grata” in 1976 by Siad Barre and who has returned to Somalia only a few times since then, elucidates the advantages of being in exile and its…
Sufism and its adherents have long been considered as being mainly engaged in mystical activities and disinterested in politics. This argument has however been challenged by a number of scholars as history proves that Sufis have not been always detached…
The Somali Penal Code in its Book One, contains a number of general principles that guide the court when applying and interpreting the Law. The article closely examines the following four principles; “The Presumption of Innocence” which considers that the…
This paper explores special investigative techniques as sources of admissible evidence, especially in complex criminal proceedings. Nowadays, such techniques produce admissible evidence in many countries under their national laws. Their laws provide for the conversion of information acquired by special…