Somalia is transitioning from an indirect electoral model to a direct voting system to strengthen democracy and enhance political legitimacy. While this shift promotes equality and citizen participation, it faces significant challenges, including insecurity, weak institutions, and political fragmentation. Challenges
The AU established the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) as the first regional peacekeeping mission to intervene in Somalia. On 31 March 2022, it was replaced by the African Transitional Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), which was given a transitional…
In Somalia, market fire occurrences have become regular incidents, with a loss of millions of dollars and possibly loss of lives. It isa severe threat to the fragile economy of a country recovering from a devastating civil war. It disrupts…
Child neglect has been long-lasting effects on children's physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. It hinders their overall development, diminishes potentiality, and perpetuates cycles of violence and trauma. It’s addressing is crucial for the well-being and future of Somalia's children. Somalia’s…
Warsan Shire, a British national born of Somali parents in Kenya, and Nayyirah Waheed an African poet in the United States, through their poetry collections, Teaching my Mother How to Give Birth (2011) and Salt (2013), respectively, address the issues…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Somalia celebrated the 60th anniversary of its independence in 2020 while still striving to recover from the state collapse and protracted civil war. Over 60 years' continuous failure to build the Somali state indicates a general trend and recurring phenomenon…