The coming election will be viewed with much interest and anticipation and it will determine whether true democracy will finally take hold in Somaliland or a Read more »
I brahim Mead
Political analyst
Ottawa, Canada
I haven’t finished to “Somalia-ize” Somaliland yet, so I need five more years!
“I am Dahir Riyaale, and I have approved this message, the below statements. All of them!”
“I have all the money, what does the opposition have? They have nothing. Follow the money and vote for me” Riyaale bragged! “That is an incriminated statement Mr. Daher. You are talking like Ali Samatar! This statement is a testimonial of thievery of the public treasury” shouted one of his supporters! Read more »
PRESS RELEASE – for immediate release SLF/06-2010/MEDIA-2-EN
OPEN LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The Republic of Somaliland has endured and overcome great obstacles since reclaiming its independence from the failed Union with Somalia in 1991. That failed Union has cost Somaliland profoundly. Somaliland was a separate British Protectorate with clearly delineated boundaries in June1960. Of the eighteen African countries that became independent in 1960, Somaliland was Read more »
International development agency Progressio, the Development Planning Unit at UCL and Somaliland Focus (UK) welcome the good progress being made toward the holding of Somaliland’s long-delayed presidential elections on the scheduled date of 26 June 2010.
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Somaliland elections: Observers welcome announcement of June date for presidential poll
Progressio and the UK-based team coordinating election observers for the delayed presidential elections in the internationally unrecognised Republic of Somaliland today welcome the recent announcement by the country’s Read more »
The Hargeisa Regional Health Board has been rehabilitating and rebuilding Hargeisa Group Hospital -the biggest referral hospital in Somaliland from 1991-up to now on a volunteer basis. The president disbanded and reprimanded them without consulting the community who selected them, or not even saying thank you. Read more »
For the second year running, US State Department strongly berated Somaliland government on human rights violations. It is lamentable rather than improving the malaise highlighted in the similar report in 2008, Riyale administration took the opposite path. It was incumbent on President Riyale to remedy the ills depicted in the report and lead the country back to the rule of law. He took the other extreme, adding salt to worsening contusion. To refresh your remembrance click the link here under for 2008 report Read more »
In the past two months, I have attended two meetings in London organised by UDUB, the ruling party of Somaliland, one in Shepherds Bush and the other in Woolwich. After this experience, I can confidently state that UDUB is in disarray. The organisers clearly lack both coordination and communication skills, as no more than 50 people were present at both meetings – despite the presence of more than 50,000 Somalilanders in Read more »
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP – NEW BRIEFING
Somaliland: A Way out of the Electoral Crisis
Nairobi/Brussels, 7 December 2009: The stalled electoral process has plunged Somaliland into a serious political crisis that presents yet another risk of destabilisation in the region. Read more »
Progressio, the Development Planning Unit at University College London (UCL) and Somaliland Focus (UK) express profound disappointment at the indefinite postponement of Somaliland’s long-overdue presidential election
International development agency Progressio, the Development Planning Unit at UCL and Somaliland Focus (UK) today express Read more »