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Punt­land dis­misses AU peace­keep­ers’ de­ploy­ment

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The Punt­land semi­au­tonomous re­gion in north­ern So­ma­lia dis­missed UN’s pro­posal of de­ploy­ing troops from the African Union forces in the re­gion as the re­gion strug­gles to stave off a stub­born deadly in­sur­gency by the Al-Qaeda-linked group in So­ma­lia. The United... More »


Re­marks by Sec­re­tary Kerry in Mo­gadishu, So­ma­lia

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U.S. Sec­re­tary of State John Kerry was the first sec­re­tary of state to visit So­ma­lia. He an­nounced that the United States plans to re­open its em­bassy in So­ma­lia, which was closed in 1991. We all have a stake in what hap­pens here in So­ma­lia. The world can­not af... More »

His­tory learned # 1: The Great China Pro­ject

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The so-called So­mali civil war can­not be re­garded as en­tirely an in­ter­nal af­fair. Sev­eral coun­tries have pro­vided sup­port to the fac­tions in the con­flict. So­ma­lia is sub­ject to an arms em­bargo, so any such armed in­ter­ven­tion, mil­i­tary aid or pro­vi­sion of arms ... More »


On the Road to Re­con­struc­tion: So­ma­lia looks to African neigh­bor Rwanda for de­mo­bi­liza­tion and rein­te­gra­tion lessons

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Since the early 1990s, So­ma­lia has ex­pe­ri­enced cy­cles of vi­o­lence that frag­mented the coun­try, de­stroyed le­git­i­mate in­sti­tu­tions, and cre­ated wide­spread vul­ner­a­bil­ity. How­ever re­cent se­cu­rity gains made by the Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment and the African Union have brou... More »

Com­mu­nity de­vel­op­ment

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Com­mu­nity de­vel­op­ment is a process where com­mu­nity mem­bers come to­gether to take col­lec­tive ac­tion and gen­er­ate so­lu­tions to com­mon prob­lems. Com­mu­nity well­be­ing (eco­nomic, so­cial, en­vi­ron­men­tal and cul­tural) of­ten evolves from this type of col­lec­tive ac­tion b... More »

Ba­juni his­tory # 1

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For at least five cen­turies the Ba­juni thrived, liv­ing a fairly peace­ful sub­sis­tence ex­is­tence, fish­ing, trad­ing, and farm­ing, in a string of cross-bor­der set­tle­ments, from Kismayuu in south­ern So­ma­lia down to the north­ern tip of Pate Is­land in Kenya, a dis­tan... More »