Abdullahi M Hassan ( Abdullahi Yabarow)

  Introduction Al-shabaab have continued to pose a significant threat to national security across Somalia and its neighbours Kenya and Ethiopia. Al-Shabaab, a terrorist organisation, has continued its violent insurgency in southern and central Somalia despite being defeated by Somali and Ethiopian forces in 2007. “ The group has exerted temporary and, at times, sustained control over strategic locations in those areas by recruiting, sometimes forcibly, regional sub-clans and their militias, using guerrilla warfare and terrorist tactics against the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) peacekeepers, and nongovernmental aid organizations ” . Al-Shabaab’s lethal rebellion continues without the hope of ending any time soon. The group constantly remains a step ahead of domestic and regional operations of military. The militants' agility, coupled with disintegration and split among their foes, has allowed them to integrate into Som

    1.1 Introduction The “ East African Community (EAC) is the regional intergovernmental organisation of the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, with its headquarters in Arusha ” , Tanzania. The aim of EAC is creating a successful, competitive, safe, steady and diplomatically united Eastern Africa and its Mission is to widen through augmented competitiveness, value added production, trade and investments. The states forming the EAC formed a customs union in 2005 and a common market in 2010. The process of regional integration is highly developed as shown by the encouraging advancement of the East African Customs Union and the formation of the common market in 2010. 1.2 Why Somalia Join EAC Somalia has been pushing and making efforts to joining the regional bloc. Somalia attempted joining the EAC between 2012 and 2017, though the corporation denied the application initially, alluding this to the fact that Somalia had intermittent co

     CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN SOMALIA DURING FARMAAJO PRESIDENCY 1.0   Abstract The international community has made efforts to bring peace and stability back to Somalia in different approaches. “ T h rou g h help of international community, the federal government of Somalia (FGS) was established in 2012 and this is now the internationally recognised government of Somalia. It replaced the transitional federal government (TFG) of Somalia with the adoption of the constitution of Somalia. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud served as the president of Somalia from 16 September 2012 to 16 February 2017. He was succeeded by Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo who has been the president to date even though his term expired on 8 th February 2020. During his presidency, the international community have played different roles in an effort to rebuild S omali a ” . This paper looks critically at the role of international community in Somalia during