Somalia: Online Course Inspires Former Envoy to Counter Environmental Degradation in Somalia

May 15, 2019 | UN Environment
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An interview with Abshir H Abshir is Executive Director, Centre for the Rule of Law and Development. Based in Garowe, the capital of Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region, Abshir is also a former ambassador to Burundi and a former member of the country’s national parliament. He recently attended a ten-week online Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace course organized by UN Environment, the Environmental Law Institute, the University of California—Irvine, Duke University and Columbia University. We spoke with Abshir to find out why the course is relevant to Puntland.