Somalia

both my parents are descendants of the Tigrinya tribe. Due to the recent events and tragedies happening amongst the Horn of Africa especially within Ethiopia and Somalia, I have been more drawn to investigate the relationship between the East African ethnic groups and tribes. The Horn of Africa, which comprises of the countries Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, is filled with many people of different ethnic and tribal backgrounds. Within these groups, they share many similarities and…

suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” Those are words the late great Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the holocaust said in 1996. Now people of the United States are divided over the rejection of the refugees from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya. People are comparing it to when the United states reject all of the Jews who escaped persecution in Germany. The United States was built on immigration. From the toys you give to your kids to the clothes you wear.…

Female genital mutilation is a cultural practice that has existed over centuries, which refers to a variety of mutilations on the private parts of women and children that involves partial or total removal of the female genitalia. FGM practices causes injury to female genital organs for cultural or non- therapeutic reasons not forgetting the socio-economic problem Somali women faces as a result of FGM and its health detriment for women. FGM is recognized both internationally and locally as an…

Ugandan soldiers got a boost late in 2007 but the first batch of Burundi Indians arrived. Burundi had been a part of the civil war and many countries helped to restore its security hence Burundi decided to help other African countries, especially Somalia. Eventually Kenya, Djibouti, Sierra Leone and Nigeria added significance to the troop numbers in the AMISOM team. For nearly three long years, AMISOM did it’s best to protect the new government, the civilian population and themselves from the…

Wahhabism that supports takfir, the excommunication of apostates or unbelievers. Though it has stated many goals in the past, the group fights first and foremost to create a fundamentalist Islamic state in the Horn of Africa that would include not only Somalia but also Djibouti, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Islamism and Salafism served to express commonalities and build alliances against shared enemies who happened to be world powers such as the USA or the USSR. The leadership of Al-Shabab describes…

In 1994, the world witnessed one of the most horrific genocides in recent memory. As reported by the BBC, in the small African country of Rwanda, the conflict between two ethnic groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis, had been brewing for decades but throughout the colonial period, tensions rose substantially, ultimately ending in the bloody massacre now known as the genocide against the Tutsi. Belgian colonizers, who deemed the Tutsis to be preferable to the Hutus, created an even stronger divide by…

Two relatives of mine shaped up my life greatly: my father and my grandmother. Much of the reason why I’m a motivated, challenged person is because of my father. He would tell me stories of how his mother would motivate him to work hard at school. He was such a competitive person, whether it was education or sports. He would receive the top marks at his classes, and he would then go on to move to the United States in 1983 to continue his studies. He became a graduate of Columbia University with…

their drones for an attack in Sep. 11, 2001. The United States attacked the suspected terrorists in Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. According to the survey that was done later in America…

the killings in Somalia (Warren 174). It is reported that until 1992, only fifteen news items related to Somalia had been reported by the media houses. None of these had managed to capture atrocities that were committed in Somalia. People were being slaughtered like pigs, but the media was not there to provide substantial information required by the members of the public. The information could have readily swayed or influenced policy makers in the course of action to take in Somalia. However,…

As President Obama stated in the June 2011 National Strategy for Counterterrorism, the United States, "continues to face a significant threat from al-Qa 'ida, its affiliates, and its adherents." And while the death of Usama Bin Laden substantively affected the strategic and operational capability of the terrorist organization, al-Qa 'ida 's pervasive reach and insidious spiritual influence into East Africa continues to pose a significant security threat to the both the United States and…