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Somaliland’s Huge
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Press Statement On 26th
June 2010 Somaliland Presidential Elections By Professor
Iqbal Jhazbhay Of The University Of South Africa
In my capacity as Professor at the University of South
Africa, I was honored to witness Somaliland’s 2010
Presidential Elections over a 7 day period (22 to 29 June
2010). A veritable feast for field-researchers and NEPAD
political activists for good governance!
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Below is a Statement made my Member of the European Parliament,
Dr. Charles
Tannock, on Friday July 2nd to the New
President Elect, Ahmed Mohamud Sillanyo, of Somaliland Dear Mr President Elect,
I am writing to congratulate you on your recent victory in
Somaliland’s presidential election. As a strong supporter of
Somaliland and its people I was very pleased that the
election was held peacefully, and was judged by observers to
adhere to internationally recognized standards. The conduct
of this election does enormous credit to Somaliland and to
you and your fellow candidates.
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By Joe Avancena
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, July 10, 2010 – Somalilanders
in Saudi Arabia are hoping that the presidential elections
held on June will continue to usher peace and reconciliation
in their country. Above all, they expressed confidence that
the world will recognize Somaliland as an independent and
democratic nation.
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Djibouti, July 10, 2010 (SL Times) — The Djiboutian
president Mr. Ismail Omar Guelleh for the first time
commented on Somaliland presidential election.
The president sent a written congratulation letter to the
elected opposition leader and chairman of the Kulimye Party,
Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Sillanyo.
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By Mark Leftly
RAK Gas, a state utility of United Arab Emirate Ras Al
Khaimah, has put its East African assets up for sale.
The group has hired the London office of corporate adviser
Taylor- DeJongh to sell assets in Tanzania, Somaliland and
Egypt. Potential bidders have received a so-called "teaser
notice", which provides some basic data on the exploration
sites.
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Statement by the Honourable Jim Karygiannis,
Member of Parliament for Scarborough-Agincourt,
On Saturday, June 26, 2010, voters in the Republic of
Somaliland went to the polls to elect a new President.
Former Opposition Leader, Ahmed M. Mohamoud Sillanyo, won
the election, defeating two other candidates. The
President-Elect obtained fifty per cent of the vote, while
incumbent President, Dahir Riyale Kahin, garnered
thirty-three per cent of the vote.
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The fragmented state of the opposition is playing into
President Guelleh’s hand for the 2011 election.
Paris France, July 10, 2010 – Some well-known opponents to
the regime - Daher
Ahmed Farah known as DAF,
Mohamed Kadamy and Mohamed
Daoud
Chehem – were present at the press conference held in
Paris on 24 June by Olivier
Morice, the lawyer acting for Abdourahman
Boreh. This gave the impression that the opposition was
on the verge of forming a coalition. In fact, this is very
far from the truth! It is certainly the case that Boreh has
sided with the opposition since he fell out with the
presidential couple. He advocates a union against President
Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG) winning a third mandate. But
even though he is widely supported among the Issa/Odahgob community,
he is by no means a political party.
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Lord Eric Avebury:
Somaliland Triumph |
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Warmest congratulations to Opposition leader Ahmad Muhammad
Mahmoud "Sillanyo", leader of the Peace, Unity and
Development Party (Kulmiye), who has been elected president
in the Somaliland Presidential elections. The National
Electoral Commission invited all the political leaders,
election observers, officials, media representatives, Guurti,
Sultans, elders etc to the announcement of the results,
which were as follows:
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Somaliland Poll Hailed;
Recognition Next? |
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Somaliland's President-elect Ahmed Mahamoud Sillanyo
during the electoral campaigns |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 10, 2010 – Both the Ethiopian and
Djibouti Governments commended the democratic process that
has taken root in Somaliland but African Union recognition
will remain key.
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Time To Recognize
Somaliland |
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D.C. Exile Blog
On Friday, the newest President of Somaliland, Ahmed Mohamed
Sillanyo, declared his intention to make Somaliland’s
international recognition his top priority. In truth,
recognition has been a top priority of Somaliland’s
political leadership since it declared its independence over
nineteen years ago. Analysts and observers have been quoted
in the few articles and bulletins announcing Somaliland’s
election results pronouncing that this election—graded free
and fair—will encourage the international community to
extend Somaliland recognition.
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The United States Should
Recognize Somaliland Now |
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In 1991, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
disintegrated into fragments. Within a year, the vast
majority of the world recognized the new nations of
Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Macedonia even
though some of these had never been separate nations before
and some were involved in brutal wars over borders.
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New Somaliland President
Looking For Recognition And Investment |
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Ahmed
Mahmoud Sillanyo, newly-elected Somaliland president |
Ahmed Mohamed Sillanyo, the opposition candidate who won the
recent presidential election in Somaliland, says
international recognition for the self-declared republic is
one of his priorities.
Sillanyo defeated outgoing president Dahir Riyale
Kahin with 49.6 percent of the vote, according to the
National Electoral Commission of Somaliland. International
observers said the poll on June 26 was largely free and
fair, despite a few irregularities, and voter turnout was
high. Islamist militants had threatened to disrupt the
process but no incidents were reported.
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Somaliland Elections And
Coverage Surprisingly...Normal |
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Voters at
a Somaliland polling station on June 26. (Ahmed
Kheyre) |
By Tom Rhodes/East Africa Consultant
Nairobi, Kenya, July 10, 2010 – Critical voices in the East
African media—whether in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi,
or Uganda—have been intimidated, banned, blocked, and beaten
prior to elections in recent years.
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Somaliland’s Uncertain
Future |
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Downtown
Hargeisa: if the coming elections survive al Qaeda,
the country could flourish |
STEFAN SIMANOWITZ
“Terrorists live in the seams between countries,” says
Michael Chertoff, former head of Homeland Security under the
Bush administration, explaining why the unguarded frontiers
of the Sahel, stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian
Ocean, are increasingly being seen as the new front line in
the war on terror.
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David Cameron Praises Somaliland
Election, Says Somaliland Is An Area Of The World Of Enormous
Importance For UK's Security, And Promises To Continue To Engage
Somaliland |
Prime Minister David
Cameron answered MP's
question on the House
of Commons on July 7th
2010
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
July 10, 2010 (SL Times)
– On July 7th, former
Welsh first Minister
Alun Michael Member of
Parliament (MP) for
Cardiff South and
Penarth (Labor MP) asked
Prime Minister David
Cameron an oral question
regarding Somaliland's
presidential election,
here is the verbatim
question and answer:
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UK Parliamentarian
Asks About His Government's Plans To Assist Somaliland? |
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London, UK, July 10, 2010 (SL Times) – Now that Somaliland has
successfully conducted its presidential elections, calls to
consolidate Somaliland's democratic gains by providing it with
international development assistance are beginning to be heard.
One such call came in the form of a written question by the
United Kingdom Parliament member Michael Crockart to the
Secretary of State for International Development.
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US Gov’t Praises
Somaliland For Conducting Real Democracy |
Nairobi, Kenya, July 10, 2010 (SL Times) – With
international observers describing last week’s presidential
elections in Somaliland as “free and fair”, the United
States government on Wednesday praised Somaliland for
conducting real democracy.
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Somaliland Elections: Why The
World Ignores Horn Of Africa's Oasis Of Stability |
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In this June 26 photo Ahmed Mohamud
Sillanyo, chairman of the KULMIYE Party, waves to his
supporters at a polling station where he arrived to cast
his vote in Hargeysa, in the self-declared republic of
Somaliland. Sillanyo has said he hopes the presidential
election will help win Somaliland international
recognition. Barkhad Kaariye/AP/File Enlarge |
Somaliland voted this past
weekend for a new president. Somaliland is the one corner of
Somalia that functions, but the international community
refuses recognize it as a nation-state. Is the West
scuppering its best chance for democracy in the region?
By Scott
Baldauf,
Johannesburg, South
Africa, July 10, 2010 – A little over a year ago, I boarded an
aged Russian propeller plane in Djibouti for a short flight into
Somaliland. It was my first and, so far, my only visit to that
self-declared republic, which broke away from Somalia 20 years
ago while no one seemed to be looking.
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Berbera, Somaliland, July 10, 2010 (SL Times) – Mohamed Osman
Elmi was arrested at Berbera port on Wednesday for trying to
violate the first come first served policy that is practiced at
the livestock export quarantine.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 10, 2010 (SL Times) – In an interview
with the Somali language newspaper Haatuf, the prominent
politician Mr Ahmed Abdi Habsade, congratulated Ahmed Sillanyo
for winning the election. Mr Habsade also drew attention to the
country’s legal system which he said is falling apart. He also
suggested the way to fix the legal system and preserve
individual rights is to apply Islamic law or Sharia.
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Somaliland Makes Progress In
Fighting TB |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 10,
2010 (SL Times) – The official in charge of eradicating
tuberculosis (TB) in Somaliland, Dr Ismail Adan Abdillahi,
lauded the country’s anti TB efforts. Dr Ismail Adan Abdillahi
revealed that Somaliland has been making steady progress in
fighting TB since the administration of Abdirahman Ahmed Ali
until now.
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Somaliland Officers Graduate From
Ethiopian Military College |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 10, 2010 (SL Times) – A luncheon in
honor of 17 Somaliland engineers who graduated from an Ethiopian
military college was held in Hargeysa’s Mansoor hotel. Speaking
on the occasion, the Minister of Defense Suleiman Warsame Guleed
commended the officers on their graduation and their hard work.
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Armed Militia Take Half Million
Dollars From Puntland Airport |
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Galkayo, Somalia, July 10, 2010 (SL Times) – In a movie-like
incident, a private militia penetrated Puntland’s airport in
Galkayo all the way to the location where an estimated 17
billion Somali Shillings (about half a million dollars) was
being kept, and walked away with the money without a shot being
fired.
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Parliamentarians Want Somalia’s
Prime Minister To Be Sacked |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, July 10, 2010 (SL Times) – About 74
members of Somalia’s bloated parliament have submitted a
motion to withdraw confidence in Somalia’s Prime Minister
Omar Abdirashid. The motion accused Somalia’s government of
not making any progress and said it is about time that the
government should be held accountable.
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NEWS RELEASE
Amman, Jordan, July 10, 2010 (SL Times) - Independent Petroleum
Land Services (IPLS) accepts invitation to open a branch office
in the Somaliland capital of Hargeysa. IPLS is an oil gas
company that provides petroleum land, security, contract
procurement, dispute resolution, and advisory services to oil &
gas exploration companies in the Middle East and North Africa.
The company was originally based in Wichita, KS. USA, but is
currently based in Amman , Jordan
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Charles
Tannock MEP endorses comments by UK government
minister and EU diplomats on Somaliland's vote |
Brussels, Belgium,
July 10, 2010 – The recent peaceful, free and fair presidential
elections in Somaliland underline the importance of
reconsidering Somaliland's desire for official re-recognition as
a sovereign independent state, ECR Group spokesman on foreign
affairs Dr Charles Tannock MEP said today as he congratulated
the winner, President-elect Ahmed Mahmoud Sillanyo.
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Security And The Environment:
Climate Wars |
Does a warming world really mean that more conflict is
inevitable?
TRONDHEIM
AS THE planet warms, floods, storms, rising seas and drought
will uproot millions of people, and with dire wider
consequences. Barack Obama, collecting his Nobel peace prize,
said that climate change “will fuel more conflict for decades”.
He took the analysis not from environmental scaremongers but
from a group of American generals.
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World’s First Solar-Powered Plane
Lands Safely |
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Model of
the HB-SIA prototype, taken from www.solarimpulse.com |
Payerne, Switzerland, July 10, 2010 – Solar Impulse has become
the world’s first solar-powered plane to make it through the
night, landing safely at 9am.
As reported on Siliconrepublic.com yesterday, the
solar-powered aircraft set off from Payerne airfield in central
Switzerland at 6am yesterday for a 24-hour flight, with the aim
of achieving the longest and highest ever flight carried out by
a solar plane.
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The United
States, which had the highest gross domestic product per
capita, can't claim to be as happy as Denmark and New
Zealand. |
The United States, which had the highest gross domestic product
per capita, can't claim to be as happy as Denmark and New
Zealand.
By Jeanna
Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor
Washington DC, July 10,
2010 – The United States may be the richest nation on Earth, a new study
indicates, but it's not the happiest.
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The
author, Dr. J. Peter Pham (right), conferring with
Somaliland’s President-elect Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud
“Sillanyo” earlier this year. |
By
J.Peter Pham, PhD
Last week, Somalis marked the fiftieth anniversary of their
achievement of independence from colonial rule. The contrasting
manner in which two parts of the onetime Somali Democratic
Republic observed the
milestone give
a telling indication not only of current realities on the ground
in the Horn of Africa, but also the prospects for security and
stability in that critical subregion.
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Unbeknownst to many, there is a place in Africa where
credible elections are held regularly, winners tend to take
office on schedule and social and civil strife are unheard
of. The reason that most of us don’t know of this place is
that Somaliland, a piece of land connected to Somalia, is
not even recognized as a country by anyone other than
itself.
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And this has happened in a sub-region allergic to political
reconciliation, power sharing and democratic elections. That
is no small achievement.
By Medhane Tadesse
Anyone who served on the academic front of conflict analysis
in the Horn of Africa is likely to prick up his ears and
experience a kind of mental salvation at the recent
democratic elections in Somaliland. Somaliland has a special
place in the political developments in Africa, especially in
the Horn. This paper is concerned with the broader political
issues surrounding the recent democratic elections in
Somaliland. It will not dwell on the details of election
politics or the nature of political parties. It aspires to
serve as an analytical guide through the pressures and
triumphs of one of the most important but least-recalled
political achievements in Africa. The fact that Kulmiye won
the election is not a surprise, and is beside the point. The
most important issue is the political background that led to
a vibrant multi-party politics and the most democratically
contested elections in Africa.
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Having broken away from a
failed state, Somaliland is now a success story. But the
west won't recognize it
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By Rageh Omaar
In Africa this past week a completely peaceful presidential
election was held. International observers said it met all
the western standards for a free election. What's more, the
incumbent president fully accepted the result the minute it
was announced and handed over power to his successor and
bitter political rival – and on accepting his victory, the
president-elect thanked and congratulated the outgoing
president for his services to his country.
What makes this election remarkable, and an important
example not just to Africa but to the whole of the
developing world – especially Muslim countries – is that it
took place in Somaliland,
a self-declared republic that broke away from the rest of Somalia 20
years ago, which doesn't get a penny of international
assistance, and which hosts an estimated 600,000 refugees
from the continuing civil war in the rest of Somalia.
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Memo
For The New President |
With the elections over, all eyes are now on Somaliland’s
newly elected President Ahmed Sillanyo. To be even more
specific, people want to see whether he will keep his promise of
forming a small and competent cabinet or whether he will bow to
pressure from different constituencies, clans and personalities
and form a large cabinet as his predecessor did.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part XXXIII |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sh. Hassan
This is the thirty third article of a series of articles that
Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military coup and its legacy
The Gainers and the Losers of the Military Regime
In this article and the subsequent ones, the names of the
major clans who were directly involved in this process and
in this particular period will be discussed and their
backgrounds introduced.
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An Open Letter To Somaliland
President-Elect: Congratulations And Stay Away Somalia |
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By Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi
The Somaliland second presidential election was political
milestone for the people, who voted for change at this time.
Somaliland's National Election Commission (NEC) proved
professionalism and dedication to job, and rescued the
country from possible political disagreement.
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Politics Of Transitional
Justice Mechanisms From Below: The Case Of Somaliland
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Adam Haji Ali Ahmed
This paper will discuss how the design and discourse of transitional justice
mechanisms- which include and take into account the views and needs of civil
society and affected communities- boost the legitimacy of the transitional
process and the prospects for reconciliation. This process could be described as
the politics of transitional justice mechanisms from below. The paper will focus
on the Somaliland situation as a case study.
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The Conflicting Interests In
Somaliland |
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Ahmed Mohamoud Elmi-Shawky
Self Interest is a poison to our being. Each and everyone of
us are eager to accomplish his/her wants- to be a minister,
a director or the likes. All these are at the expense of the
common interest- the nationalism and patriotism,
development, well fare and brotherhood.
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Sillanyo’s First 100 Days |
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Soyan Guled
Welcome Mr President the people have spoken loud and clear and voted for change.
They placed on your famously broad shoulders their hopes for better tomorrow and
they expect you to deliver.
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Tribute to President Dahir Riyale Kahim
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Abdillahi Daud
I would like to express my gratitude to President Dahir Riyale Kahin for
gracefully conceding the loss of the presidential election. He could have
refused to accept the results with potential deadly consequences for the county.
He set himself apart from African dictators who usually put their selfish
personal interests above those of their countries.
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The Somaliland People Opted for Change |
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Abdirahman Ibrahim Abdillahi
Somalilanders proved that they are different than neighboring countries in that
they opted for change by means of one man one vote. As to why people chose
Kulmiye is among others Udub have long enough to do something and they have got
nothing to do
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The Somaliland
Hope Is Endorsed Soon |
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By Mohamed Ali Nuxurkey
It is only just days ago when Somaliland people went to the polls for observing
the presidential election in the country’s first democratically election.
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Life As An Election
Observer |
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By C.H. | Hargeysa
TO QUOTE one of my more knowledgeable colleagues: “Elections
are funny things. Highly technical and procedural exercises
that are yet filled with emotion and rhetoric.” During
Britain’s recent election, emotion ran short. In Somaliland,
it is present in spades. An election in a bit of Somalia,
the world’s most failed state, is something to get emotional
about.
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Somaliland Expects |
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Ignored by the world, Somaliland’s peaceful elections were
aided by press freedom unparalleled in the region. Will
international recognition follow? Asks Sarah Howard
To the north of Somalia is the small, vibrant but
unrecognized nation of Somaliland, independent since 1991,
where presidential elections were held on 26 June.
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Peaceful Poll In Somaliland
Points A Way Out Of Conflict |
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By Kevin Kelley
Nairobi, Kenya, July 10, 2010 – The recent elections in Somaliland hold out the
hope of progress toward resolving the nearly 20-year-long conflict in Somalia,
some US analysts say.
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Somaliland: Peaceful,
Democratic But Unrecognized |
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Makwaia Wa Kuhenga |
Makwaia Wa Kuhenga
Not many people are aware that there is a country in the Horn of Africa known as
Somaliland, quite thriving as a state and at peace with itself but
internationally unrecognized. What is recognized is the almost collapsed state
of Somalia with Mogadishu as its capital.
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