Somalia’s Supreme Court was still uncorrupted in 1967.

Evidence

The meeting went nowhere, and Hussen asked the mediators to let the accuser take the matter to court, as that would also reveal who was behind the scheme. Since the Supreme Court was as yet uncorrupted, Hussen was confident that an investigation would not find any dirty laundry in his record. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 997

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader story of Somalia’s institutional decay after 1969 and to the reader’s interest in the trajectory from democracy to dictatorship.