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…
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…
In the 2012 London Conference on Somalia, the international community proposed a plan for Somaliland and Somalia to hold talks in order to clarify their future relations and thus promised to provide a negotiation platform. Since then, the Government of…
This paper isa study of Somali fiction writer Saida Hagi Dirie Herzi's three short stories: “Against The Pleasure Principle” (1990), which is about female genital mutilation; “Government By Magic Spell” (1992), which isa criticism of the political corruption; and “The…
This study isa replicate of the Leadership Practice Inventory (LPI- Observer), a half-a-century-old research instrument . Having every component of the instrument intact, the aim of this study was to evaluate the leadership capability of Somali-American leaders. The study looked…
In the early 1990s, the Somalis became one of the top refugee groups in Canada, when Canada was trying to throw away the yo ke of economic recession bedeviling the country since the 1980s. Making the matter worse, the socio-economic…
Since its invention, journalism has been required to do at least three things at the same time as outlined by McNair (2005 ). These are the provision of information required for people to mon itor their social environments, a resource…
Since mid-1980s, Somalia has experienced a long period of instability and chaos characterized by a brutal civil war. This paper focuses on some literary representations of the Somali civil war, in selected Somali poets, which shed light on Somalis' experiences…
The international community's intervention in fragile or failed states mostly is welcomed. But on the other hand, the external intervention revolves around the interest, ideas, strategies and the policies of the intervener. This study explores Turkish model in Somalia`sstate building…
This article has two primary objectives: a) to intr oduce the debate about kinship systems and socio-political identity and or ganization in Somalia. I do this by reviewing an exchange at a British tribunal between two prominent academics in Somali…