Essays on Somalia

Violent Crimes

Al Shabaab refers to a jihadist terrorist group that operates in the eastern parts of the African continent, particularly in Somalia. The group originated from the militant section of the supreme Islamic courts union (ICU) in 2006 with the aim of forcing the democratic government to allow the establishment of an independent Islamic state in the country (Siegel 153). The Al Shabaab group is a form of an indoctrinated extremism as the group mostly targets the Muslim faithful to recruit them into the movement. The extremist group's main ideology is to force the formation of an Islamic state in ...

Which conflicts are ethnic and which conflicts are protracted?

Mauritania (ethnic, protracted) Government of Mauritania against Polisario; Senegalese against Mauritanian Guinea (ethnic) The Rally of Democratic Forces of Guinea fights against the government of Guinea-Bisau. Mali (ethnic, protracted) This is an ethnic conflict occurring for a long period of time. Conflict in Mali involves a number of ethnic groups and the conflict has become protracted. The government of Mali fights several ethnic groups, including governments of neighboring countries. These groups include the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia/Union of Islamic Courts (ARS/UIC), North Mali Tuareg Alliance for Change, Government of Somalia; factions like Malinke, the MNLF – HM (Moro ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations are all supporting documents that were drafted by exists and technocrats drawn from all active member states and subsequently unanimously upheld as binding treaties. The major mission as contained in the two documents is to emphasize on the recognition of every human being as equal and insistence on a peaceful and harmonious existence. Although most of the information as contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations seems to converge, some articles and chapters are implicitly conflicting. Safe from ...

Korea was bisected at the end of the Second World War, as a response to the differing political climates which each half of the peninsula espoused – North Korea preferred the communism of the Soviet Union, while South Korea was more in line with the policies and politics espoused by the west, the U.S. in particular. During the early fifties, hostilities between the two halves of the country reached breaking point, and the Korean War broke out, with the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea attempting to reunify the country by conquering South Korea, and the American army attempting to ...

Social housing project

The social housing program of TOKI Company is targeting the low and middle-income group that are not able to own a housing unit, particularly under the current market conditions. Similarly, when considering the distribution of the housing projects that are realized by the company, about 15% consist of the fund raising method of revenue sharing while the rest of the percentage are the social housing projects (TOKI Housing Programs). On the other hand, the project that is targeting the low income earning people have increased the monthly instalments depending on the increasing rate of the public wage index sector, ...

Thesis: The role of U.S. military has become the primary force which opposes terrorism by capturing and/or eliminating terrorists as is exemplified by two raids that were conducted in Tripoli and Somali (Starr, Perez, & Botelho, 2013). These two instances also illustrate how the United States views itself as the one who should decide what to do with terrorists once they are captured as they took the terrorists without discussing it with the Libyan government giving the rest of the world the impression that the US believes they are superior.

Two International Incidents

The capture of Abu Anas al Libi in Tripoli (2013) ...

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Foreign Aid: for war or for peace?

Former United Nations Secretary General Boutros-Boutros-Ghali delivered his watershed report, “An Agenda for Peace.” In the report, Boutros-Ghali reaffirmed the part of the international agency in upholding global peace and order. Confronted with critical regional and global instabilities that are posited by ‘failed states.’ the global community has allocated billions of dollars into complicated, multifaceted state building programs geared to incorporate power and rebuild local institutions. However, it is posited that these institutions destroy the natural political order that happen in these failed states; these heighten the intensity and brutality of the conflicts within these states. One of ...

Introduction

No doubt this nation has suffered greatly in the recent past and its staying power has been challenged to its limits, chief among them the insurgency of Boko HaramBoko Haram will soon know the strength of our will and commitment to rid this nation of terror we shall spare no effort until we defeat terrorism (Buhari cited in Associated Press, 2015b)). The above quotation is from the first speech of the newly elected President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari knew exactly what he was saying, when put tackling Boko Haram as the first issue of his agenda (Associated Press, ...

Article Review

The main points of the article are simple, then. Al-Shabaab has grown Somalia with unprecedented speed and force, demanding Western nations, as well as their allies take notice and attempt to stomp out this force, just as was down with al-Qaida. Laws and policies that allowed for the eradication of one terrorist cell now appear to have fostered the growth of another, funneling soldiers and support toward it while resources were diverted elsewhere . Terrorist cells such as these are a growing trend amongst what is commonly known as the Jihadist community, but few gain the notoriety Al-Shabaab has attained ...

Thesis

Toni Morrison's novel, Home, is an allegory that uses post-Korean war setting to paint a picture of the never-ending human conflicts like war, racism, trauma and manhood. Despite many years as the world’s superpower, America has not yet found a solution for world conflicts. Despite fighting in Korea, where he lost his homes, Frank Money has not yet learned how to be a man, and he thinks of Lotus, where he was grown, as a place worse than any battlefield. The novel is a reflection of a struggle that never ends, no matter how someone, how a country ...

Part 1.

Since the end of the WWII, the United States has taken a leading role in the provision of the world leadership as the ultimate policeman of the world. The US has developed a series of foreign policies and treaties that are meant to guarantee the safety of the world.

Part 2.

A. (i).Financial and technical support to AMISON (ii) Killing of Osama Bin Laden by the US seal Navy army

B (i) Policy of containment

(ii) Provision of citizenship for anti-communist individuals who are being persecuted in Afghanistan. (iii).Culture of consumerism to promote US industries (iv) .Influence of US on Anti-narcotics policies in the ...

Since its independence in 1969, up to 1991 Somalia was ruled by one President, Dictator Mohammed Siad Barre (Fitzgerald, 2002). In 1991, Mohammed Siad Barre was forced out of power when rival clan militia captured Mogadishu the capital city. There emerged power struggle between two clan lords, Ali Mahdi Mohamed and Mohamed Farah Aideed, which led to mass killing of Somalia civilians. One of the two lords, Ali Mahdi Mohamed, declared himself a president. Over 300,000 Somalis died of hunger, diseases or the civil war. In 1992, the United Nations Security Council approved a military mission which was ...

The failure of Somalia revolved around both international and local factors that hindered the political and economic stability of the people. Foremost, before the country gained independence in 1960, foreign powers exploited its resources their benefit. Central to the mentioned exploitation was the building of the Suez Canal in 1869 that subsequently made Somalia the “mid-point between Europe and Asia” (2mins). In concurrence with the apparent benefits of the country, the narrator informs viewers that the territories of Somalia were colonized by “Britain, France, and then Italy,” all of whom solely sought the benefits of the lucrative trade routes ( ...

Introduction and Brief History of Ibrahim

Childhood trauma is a stressful condition experienced by children and adolescents for being exposed to intensively abusive or very painful events that they cannot cope with on their own. The events threaten the child’s physical and emotional health or that of a loved one (Arnold, & Fisch, 2011). Ibrahim, a ten-year-old boy, lives in a subsidized house in Minneapolis with his mother and siblings. The family emigrated from Somalia when Ibrahim was only four years old, and his father regained his Somalia citizenship and went back to Somalia. In a special summer, Ibrahim and his elder siblings attended a ...

E nvironmental conservation has attracted the attention of the globe because the consequences of environmental degradation are diverse and affect the whole world in one way or the other. Human activities have largely been blamed for environmental degradation and to correct this, steps on environmental conservation have been taken seriously by all countries in the world. Somalia is located in a semi-arid area of Sub-Saharan Africa, with an estimate of 5,700,000 Ha of low-density woodland and 52,000 Ha of dense forest (Thulin 14). However, environmental degradation has been on the rise in Somalia, and the major ...

Goldstein in his book Winning the War on War brings out a contrary opinion concerning the twentieth-century war. Specifically, he contests the claim that twentieth century was one of the bloodiest in the record. He argues that the wars were smaller in scale and fewer in number contrary to what many had reported (Goldstein p. 5). He analyzes the negative and positive effects of peacebuilding and peacekeeping considering the way United Nations (UN) has made a lot of strides in trying to reduce war proliferation in different member nations. He explains that this has been achieved through giving the ...

Colonialism is one of the most actual issues of the modern historical science. The formation of colonial regimes entailed profound changes in the economic situation of the African population and reflected in the nature and way of their management. The British and French colonial models were quite different, but I am not sure whether it will be correct to say that colonies were only raw appendages of the empires and got nothing in exchange. The process of colonization of Africa has become widespread in the second half of the XIX century, especially after 1885 and the beginning of the ...

International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Somalia

The combination of several factors resulted to the challenges faced by people in terms of having access to safe and clean water in Somalia. There is relentless pressure to improve the living conditions of the population living in Somalian communities through the provision of continuous supply of clean and safe water. The IOM deemed it sustainable to implement a system where appropriate sanitation process and knowledge to protect the community from exposure to water born diseases. Currently, the challenges that exist in Somali in terms of the water supply in the communities are affected by such factors as arid ...

Q. 6.

In Kenya, the mortality rate of Rift Valley Fever (RFV) was reported to be 23 % between 30th November, 2006 and March 12, 2007. This percentage is a representative of the overall 684 cases reported and the 155 deaths reported. North Eastern province led with a total of 333 cases while Rift Valley had 183 cases reported. On the other hand, 141 cases were reported in Coast Province while 14 cases were reported in the Central region. The North Eastern part of Kenya had the least number of casualties reported; 13 cases. Out of the 684 cases described, only 234 cases were ...

Political movements have for a long time been characterized by various aspects, ranging from peaceful movements to terrorism and even genocide. As human beings struggle to make civilizations, governments and laws, it is quite true that there are always some aspects which bring in controversies, leading to revolutions or terrorism. In the modern world, there are several nations affected by these political and social situations, and one only has to look at the situations in Egypt, the Middle East and Tunisia.

Although defining terrorism may seem to be quite obvious, the distinction between revolutionary movements and terrorism is quite difficult, ...

The National Interest in which the president depicts is; the loss of lives by the American troops in the Afghanistan, the economic effect the war has caused especially in the America as the government is focusing its resources on the war in Afghanistan and also the killings that were spearheaded by the al Qaeda on the American travelers. The military effort will be able to enhance the strongholds in the American economy and thus minimize the resources deployed to Afghanistan which in the long run will enhance economic stability of the America. The military will have to be increased ...