PESTEL ANALYSIS ON SOMALIA | FACTORS | SOMALIA – THE TARGET MARKET | HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM/PROSPECTS | Political | * The country is politically instable. [1] * There is no single government that regulates the economy. * Transitional government‚ known as the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is currently regulating but does not seem to be regulating to full extend. * However‚ the TFG remains fragile and lacks the capacity to provide services inside Somalia. Constant violence (terrorist
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Introduction The history of American involvement in Somalia can traced back to the 1970’s‚ where Somalia and Ethiopia were both frontlines in the Cold War. In order to indirectly fight the Soviet Union‚ the USA supported the Somali Dictator Siad Barre with arms sales‚ in return for the use of strategic former Soviet bases‚ which could be used as strategic positions with which they could expand to the Middle East. Backed by the US‚ the Barre regime solidified its power by being one of the most
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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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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: 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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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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PIRACY IN SOMALIA AND ITS INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS In the past few years‚ pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia have received a great deal of public attention. According to the London-based International Maritime Bureau‚ there has been an “unprecedented increase” in Somali pirate activity in the first 9 months of 2009. Until September this year 147 incidents were reported off the Somali coast and in the Gulf of Aden (separating Somalia and Yemen)‚ compared with 63 for the same period
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ELTU1001EC-PSE Joanne Topic: Dying from hunger-Starvation Problem in Somalia Poverty of Africa is a Global issue in the world. Recently‚ worldwide poverty has been fallen from 40% to below 20%. However‚ it is not the case of Africa. Nowadays‚ still more than 40% of people living in sub-Saharan African live in absolute poverty. (Our Africa‚ 2013) ‘More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day‚ 300 million are children. Of these 300 million children‚ only eight percent are victims
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• The Dual Track Policy • London Conference on Somalia • Conclusion • Questions to be considered • Supplementary Reading • Other Sources Human Rights in Somalia post the Horn of Africa food crisis Introduction Since the overthrow of Siad Barre’s government‚ Somalia has suffered a human rights crisis for the last 20 years‚ characterized by serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law. The protection of civilians in the context of the armed conflict‚ combined with impunity
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Somalia: United States Strategic Interest SFC Broderick Blanchard SLC Class 13-002 Introduction In recent years‚ Africa’s growing strategic importance has been greatly noted and documented in several studies and papers by United States policymakers‚ Department of Defense (DOD) and military analysts. Africa’s natural and energy resources are the main focus due to the crude oil export has matched what the Middle East provided in the past. As envisioned by the DOD‚ AFRICOM aims to promote United
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