Strengthening Educational Collaboration Between Somaliland and South Africa
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Participants of Good Governance Seminar held in University of Pretoria 2-13 July 2007 |
“ Hargeisa University’s Faculty of Law and Legal Clinic is a Success Academic Development in the Horn of Africa. The Faculty Was Established in 2002 As There Was Great Need For Justice and Application of Law in Somaliland” Mr.Mahamoud Faarah, Dean of the Faculty.
Pretoria, The centre for human rights is an academic department in the faculty of law at the University of Pretoria, the master’s degree programme (LLM) in Human Right and democratization in Africa presented in partnership with other universities in Africa including university of Hargiesa.
Every academic year, Pretoria University sends 10 students with experienced lecturers in LLM programme to Somaliland to learn more about state building, recognition and socio-political and economic developments of Somaliland.
24 th March 2007, 10 LLM students accompanied by American Dr.David Padilla Adv Fritz Gaerdes and Adv Jacob van Garderen (Lawyers for Human Rights), Susan Precious (Programme manager) and Martin Nsibirwa (LLM Programme Manager), went for a field trip to various ministries (justice & education) and some academic institutions in Somaliland including university of Hargeisa.
“Mr. Mohamoud Hussein Faarah, the dean of the faculty of Law at the University of Hargeisa has played a pivotal role to ensure the success of our study visits to Somaliland, the centre of Human Rights is therefore very keen to develop the existing relationship between the University of Pretoria and University of Hargeisa” says Martin Nsbirwa, LLM Programme Manager of Pretoria ‘Varsity.
The strengthening collaboration and relationship between the two institutions (Pretoria & Hargeisa), creates to propose new initiative of staff development, therefore the Dean of the faculty of Law and Legal Clinic, Mr.Mohamoud Faarah accompanied by graduate student from Hargeisa ‘Varsity, have been invited to attend a short course on good governance which took place 2-13 July 2007. Among the main issues the Good Governance Course has covered are (just to mention view);
- General Good Governance & Human Rights Issues
- HIV/AIDS & Good Governance
- Macro-Economic Perspective and Results in SADC\
- Good Governance and the Financial Services Sector
- Ethical Governance
- Economic Globalisation and its impact on Good Governance
- Administrative Justice
- Constitutional Law
- International Law and Socio-Economic Rights
- Environmental Law and Good Governance
- Anti-Corruption Measures in Both Public and Private Sector
- Accountability and Good Governance
After the short course has ended on 13 th July, the Centre for Human Rights extended Mr.Mohamoud’s stay in Pretoria for an extra week during which Mr. Faarah has received welcoming invitations from various academic people, business people, the Community of Somaliland in Southern Africa (COSSA),he also met some ambassadors in Pretoria including the new ambassador of Ethiopia to South Africa to discuss the Somaliland educational developments & stability.
Compiled by Saeed Furaa,
Freelance Journalist,
Pretoria, South Africa
E-mail: somalilandjournalist@yahoo.com
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