Digital archives of Somali acts from 1950 to 1989 delivered

(ANSA) - ROMA, 11 GEN - During a meeting held today, the anniversary of the 1948 massacre of the Italians in Mogadishu, the Italian Ambassador Pier Mario Daccò Coppi handed over to the Somali Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Hassan Moalim Mohamud, a digital archive, in Italian and Somali, containing the laws and official bulletins published in Somalia between 1950 and 1989, donated by the Roma Tre University.
    It is the result of decades of research work conducted by professors and researchers from the Roma Tre University and the Somali National University, coordinated by prof. Annarita Puglielli, former director of the Roma Tre University's Centre for Somali Studies, the archive consists of a precious collection of legislative, juridical and administrative acts, covering a historical span that goes from the Italian Trusteeship in Somalia to the period of the First Republic (1960-1969) and the Somali Democratic Republic (1969-1989)," the embassy said in a note. The bulletins are therefore published in Italian from 1950 to 1973, while they are published in Somali from 1973 to 1989, after the adoption of the written system in the Latin alphabet in 1972.
    It is therefore a body of law that represents the backbone of the current Somali legal system, but is difficult to find in the local context, whose material and immaterial archival heritage has been damaged - often irreparably - by the devastation of the civil war. This donation, greatly appreciated by the Somali authorities and representatives of associations of scholars and legal practitioners, is in continuity with the delivery of about 2,000 volumes to the Intergovernmental Academy of the Somali Language last December, representing a further support offered by Italy to the recovery of Somali historical memory and the consolidation of the country's legal and legislative system.