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This website is an interactive academic tool for CEA-UNH course: International Human Rights: Universal Principles in World Politics



Instructor: Dr. Scott Blair

CEA Paris Global Campus

Spring 2011

UNH Course Code: POL 350

Credits: 3















Saturday, May 21, 2011

Somali Governmental System...Where is it?

"A roadside bomb blast targeted an MSF-Holland car, killing two
foreigners, one Kenyan and the other a white man, and a Somali driver
and a Somali journalist who was passing by on the road," witness Hussein
Abdi said.

In the area of  Kismayo which is a city in Somali known for war crimes. Kismayo has been taken over by local clan leaders, and is no longer under Somalia's interim government. Somali has been dealing with many issues concerning a division of governmental systems.


Kismayo has been the site of numerous battles in the ongoing Somali Civil War. In late 2006, Islamist militants gained control of most of the city. To reclaim possession of the territory, a new autonomous regional administration dubbed Azania was announced in 2010 and formalized the following year.

 In 2007 Somalia was consolidating under the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), which recently completed a military campaign against the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). The Islamic Courts Union is now part of the TFG, along with the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia The TFG is supported by the United Nations. Until recently, it governed out of an administrative capital in Baidoa. In the last days of 2006, forces of the transitional government supported by Ethiopian forces ousted the ICU from Mogadishu. Peace keeping forces from the African Union are expected to support the transitional government in its bid to control the country.

The situation has began to get worst with the recent shooting killing two Somali natives, and with the U.S. attempting to intervene and unfortunately not being successful leaves the situation at a more nervous level for the Somali people. The solution for many natives is to just depart the country in hopes of freedom elsewhere.

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