Mohamud M Uluso

Political reform 2013-2016

Democratic constitutions provide legal instruments consisting of petitions and motions to the citizens, including elected officials, to promote public policy, seek justice and accountability, resolve political differences and conflicts, and ensure public participation in the political process.

National governance is at once one of the most practical and emotive features of the modern nation-state system.

Despite an unprecedented number of foreign interventions particularly since 2000, Somalia lingers on as a failed state, which is a threat to the international peace and security.

October 6, 2014
Clan Federalism: The worst option for state building in Somalia

Optimism for peace and recovery in Somalia has become a transient feeling quickly dashed by the occurrence of violent incidents and discovery of gross wrongdoings.

On 5 May, more than 100 parliamentarians signed a letter calling on President Hassan to resign immediately.

The Kenyan government’s brutal human rights violations against the Somali community in Kenya as well as its its unlawful military and diplomatic actions in the Jubba regions of Somalia have gone largely uncommented upon.

In the context of Somali political culture and discourse, it should be clear by now that the meaning of the principle of ‘federalism in Somalia’ is completely different from the one of political power decentralization for governance explored in the legal and political literature.