Hawa Noor M.

The use of Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) to curb illegally acquired wealth looks like an answer to Africa’s long-term problem of recovering its looted assets.

It is a new world, a different global village characterized by increased interconnectedness and interaction of people and movement of goods and services. Borders have become more porous than ever before and human interaction heightened. This is the reality of the today’s world.[1]

The upholding of convictions and sentencing of two female US citizens by a federal appeals court in Minnesota in August, found guilty of conspiring to funnel money to a terrorist organization in Somalia, has added to the debate on the role of women in terrorist activities.