By Liban Ahmad ​In 2019, Somalia became the 30th African nation to sign the Kampala Convention (the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa). This accord commits Somalia to protecting its people against “displacement based on policies of racial discrimination or similar practices …

By Liban Ahmad “Every human being shall have the right to be protected against being arbitrarily displaced from his or her home or place of habitual residence.” The arbitrary displacement of more than 1000 people in Las Anod authorized by the Somaliland government constitutes a violation of the United Nations Guiding …