Somalia‚ or the Somali Republic‚ is a region in East Africa’s Horn of Africa that has been plagued with tragedy for hundreds of years. Somalia is not recognised as an official country‚ and is governed by the Transitional Forces Government. For more than 2‚500 years‚ Somalia has been inhabited by a range of ethnic groups‚ but the Somalian people led an independent government until the rise of European colonialism in the 1800s. In the late 1880s‚ Somalia was conquered and divided into three separate
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Regional Studies 400592.01E Prof. Dr. José Magone Wintersemester 2010/2011 The Rise and Outcome of piracy in Somalia Katharina Urban 297114 7 Contents 1 Introduction.......................................................................................................................1 2 Historical Background......................................................................................................2 3 Reasons for Piracy.................................................
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Somalia was colonized by Europe between 1839-1897. The Northern part of Somalia was colonized by the British‚ but the majority of Somalia was controlled by Italy. Somalia had a lot of minerals‚ such as copper‚ tin‚ iron ore‚ and salt‚ as well as rich farming land that the natives had used to fuel their agricultural community for millennia. During the European colonization of Somalia cultural aspects of the population changed and some stayed the same. One of the things that changed during the colonization
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Somalia: Phases of the Modern Development of Islamic Movements Dr. Abdurahman Abdullahi ( Baadiyow)i The historical evolution of the Islamic movements in Somalia have attracted less academic interest in the research communities and existing modest literature addresses Islam from the margins of history‚ through Orientalist and secularist discourses and security perspectives. Nonetheless‚ scholarship on Islam in Somalia slightly improved since the collapse of the Somali state in 1991 and increased
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off the coastlines of Somalia have been the greatest concern of the international community with its ever growing fear of threat to international shipping. Within these concerns comes the heated debated as to why these acts of piracy began. Many believe that the absence of government and the lack of natural resources have played a major role‚ along with the illegally fishing and dumping of toxins in the waters of Somalia. With the ongoing plague of war since the 1980s‚ Somalia has become one of the
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rights can be seen in the use of child soldiers with hundreds of thousands used worldwide. This breaches the right to liberty and security of person with children forcibly recruited‚ “press-ganged” or abducted by armed groups. Child soldiers may be forced to the front lines or sent into minefields ahead of older troops. Girl soldiers are at a particular risk of rape and sexual violence. The right to education (which under the Convention on the Rights of the Child should be available free to all at
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Somalia vs United States Somalia‚ which is about the size of Texas‚ is a small country located in Eastern Africa next to the Indian Ocean. The United States‚ which is located on the Western Hemisphere‚ is bordered by Mexico and Canada and is between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Separated not only by the Atlantic Ocean‚ Somalia and the United States are also separated by the differences in economies and populations. These two countries that are quite opposite in size have some similarities
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Somalia: Emerging Trends of Political Islam By Abdurahman Abdullahi (Baadiyow) Abdurahman M. Abdullahi (Baadiyow) is a former military officer (19971-1986)‚ electronic engineer‚ Islamic scholar and politician. He obtained PhD degree in the Islamic history from McGill University in Canada and engineering degree from Somali National University. He is co-founder of Mogadishu University in 1997 and its chairman of the Board of Trustees. He is also one of the prominent political figures in Somalia who
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Committee: UNHRC Country: Somalia Date: 22/09/2012 Violation of Human Rights in the wake of the Arab Spring of 2011/2012 The situation in the Arab nations today can be best described as Volatile. The yearning for change witnessed in Tunisia‚ Egypt‚ Libya and Yemen has created instability which needs to be resolved before it leads to greater respect for democracy and human rights. The country of Somalia is trying to do everything it can to help our fellow Arab Nations. Somalia has worked in close collaboration
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Solution to the Issue of Child Soldiers The issue of child soldiers‚ while not a new one‚ is a problem that has plagued humanitarian organizations for decades. The pressing and disturbing nature of the matter‚ as well as the seeming inability to find a solution‚ has pressed many to offer up different proposals and theories as to the best way to impede such atrocities from taking hold in our world. In his article‚ “Talk is Cheap: Getting Serious about Preventing Child Soldiers”‚ P.W. Singer suggests
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