Essays on Somali

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ( ...

Laird's article covers the social and the cultural life of the Arabic Miswak. The author aims at exploring how the Muslims kept and maintained the information about the indigenous medicines and the various forms that the people passed the information about their famous drugs. The article as well touches on how they maintained their oral hygiene. It focuses on brushing stick among the Somali community. Somali incorporated their hygiene with their social life. The uncommon tooth problems among people of Somali origin is attributed the famous adage. The knowledge about the adage was passed from one generation to another. ...

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 ...