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The study assessed the impact of unskilled labour on waste product management in the West 'B' municipality of Zanzibar. The sample size was 139 respondents, and a cross-sectional research design involving a quantitative approach was applied. The data were collected by using questionnaires. Multiple regressions were used to analyse the data. The findings show that in waste collection, unskilled labours do not have any impact on waste products management as it scored 0.542 higher than 0.05 alpha of probability value. Secondly, that waste transportation also has no impact on waste products management as it scored 0.808 alpha above a standard of 0.05. In contrast, unskilled labours have an impact on waste disposal as it scored 0.023 alpha less than 0.05 alpha. The study recommended that the government should provide modern equipment and improve the working environment to ensure unskilled labours put more effort into the management of waste products. Nevertheless, capacity building of unskilled labourers on waste disposal was recommended to increase proper waste disposal.

This semi-academic work on the collapse of Malaysia's Pakatan Harapan government is written from a sectoral security perspective. Its basic idea is derived from my articles published in The New Straits Times from August 2018 to August 2021 which focused on the PH government and its political alliance, their incompatibilities, weaknesses. vulnerabilities and insecurities. This approach enables this book to examine the fall of the PH administration from the perspectives of ideological, political, identity and economic insecurities in the PH era and their ultimate impacts on the PH alliance and the PH government. This approach also enables this book to establish that the rise of the PH government was accompanied by a new political identity which was different from the political identity of the Perikatan-Barisan Nasional government which ruled Malaysia for over six decades since Independence in 1957. These dissimilarities had caused certain Malaysia's citizenry, particularly a section of the Peribumi-Muslim community, to perceive this new political identity as unable to protect their future as Malaysia's biggest national groups and the sons of the soil, as well as the biggest followers of Islam in the PH era. This perception led to the emergence of trust deficit in the PH government and on Bersatu as the only Peribumi-based party in the PH alliance.

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Theory of Social Capital, Democracy and Democratization -- Chapter 2: The Context of Democratization in KRI: Implications for Social Capital -- Chapter 3: Political Aspects of Trust and Social Networks -- Chapter 4: Public Interest and Civic Participation (PICP) -- Chapter 5: Framing Social Capital and Transition to Democracy in KRI.

Critical Realism, Somalia and the Diaspora Community equips new researchers with a simplified knowledge of critical realism suitable to the degree of their comprehension. Moreover, it offers a step by step example of research using all levels of critical realism. This book resulted from the endeavour of a researcher, new to critical realism who, however, sought to apply all parts and phases of critical realism to his subject matter. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 provides an outline of the three phases of critical realism: original/basic critical realism, dialectical critical realism and the philosophy of metaReality. Part 2 presents a case study that applied critical realism as a research-theory framework. The case study explores the formation of the Somali Community Organisations in the UK and develops a retroductive model that outlines their role in engaging the Somali Diaspora Community with the issue of sustainability. Part 3 presents reflections towards the geo-historical study of Somalia and explains the origins of the civil war and the dispersal that resulted in the formation of Somali Diaspora Communities in different parts of the world. This book will be of interest to Critical Realists, researchers on and in Africa, agencies interested in Somali affairs, researchers on diaspora and refugees, Somali Community Co-ordinators and local council authorities in the UK and Europe.