Abdullahi M Hassan ( Abdullahi Yabarow)

  History of Arms Embargo imposed on Somalia Government Arms embargo is a prohibition that applies to the trade or activities related to military items and is usually imposed by the United Nations. Somalia has a history of conflict and instability, and there have been efforts to control the flow of arms into the country. The United Nations Security Council has authorized regional organizations, such as the African Union, to assist the Somali government in establishing security and implementing arms embargoes on specific entities or regions within Somalia, such as Al-Shabaab. The arms embargo was first introduced on Somalia in 1992 with the aim of reducing the supply of weapons to warring clan-based groups that had ousted President Mohamed Siad Barre, leading to a civil war in the country. Nonetheless, the ineffective and corrupt federal government in Mogadishu has been actively supporting the removal of the embargo, stating its inability to acquire weapons for countering the threat p

        Reasons Why Somalia Should Continue Pursuing EAC Membership Despite the fact that Somalia is still struggling for stability, there is no harm in its administration to pursue membership into any regional inter-governmental entities. This is because it needs allies and friends while on its path to political stability and economic prosperity. East African Community (EAC) which is an intergovernmental organisation composed of six member states in East Africa, is one of the entities Somalia that is seeking its membership. There are several reasons why Somalia should continue pursuing membership in the East African Community (EAC). Economic Integration : Becoming a member of the EAC would facilitate economic integration with neighbouring countries, promoting trade and investment opportunities. Somalia could benefit from the EAC's common market, which allows for the free movement of goods, services, and capital among member states. This integration

  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