Category: Somaliland
President Silanyo: Why the UK should support a sovereign Somaliland
HARGEISA (HAN) June 23.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. On 24 June 1960, The London Gazette published a proclamation by HM the Queen terminating British protection over the Somaliland Protectorate and declaring that Somaliland would become ‘’an independent country” on 26 June. That day, in Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa, the union flag was lowered for…
Somaliland and Israel: The Past and Present
Djibouti (HAN) March 13. 2013. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.Opinion by: Somaliland activist and senior editor at The Democracy Chronicles. Ever since I was born I could hear the waves of hatred and prejudice pouring upon Jews for unexplained reasons, but apparently associated with the Arab-Israeli conflict, which Somalia was not a part of. During…
SOMALILAND FIVE YEARS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN: PART FOUR
PART FOUR: Written by: Mohammed Dahir Ahmed. Continuing with the Economic pillar analysis,the biggest share of Somaliland public expenditure is on staff salaries (56.7%) and operational and administrative expenses (19.53%) according to public expenditure break down in 2011,when the five years plan was under development.Moreover,as far as budgetary sectoral allocations are concerned,50% of state budget is allocated…
SOMALILAND FIVE YEAR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN: A PLAN WITH NO REVIEW MECHANISM.
PART THREE: Written by: Mohammed Dahir Ahmed REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF THE ECONOMIC PILLAR ASSUMPTIONS The writers of the plan took the assumption, that hard infrastructure is the only prerequisite for national development in the expense of the soft infrastructure development, where the set up of enabling environment for investment is prioritesed,as well as the…
SOMALILAND FIVE YEAR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN: A PLAN WITH NO REVIEW MECHANISM.
HARGEISA (HAN) June 8.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. PART TWO: Written by: Mohammed Dahir Ahmed. In part two I would eyeball at the Economic pillar which is one of the five pillars of the Somaliland National development plan (2012-2016). Mainly I will scrutinize the soundness of its baseline assumptions,targets,achievements and areas it was short of…
Breakaway Somaliland dreams port will boost independence
HARGEISA (HAN) June 1.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Creaking wooden fishing dhows bob alongside each other in the sparkling blue waters of the port of Berbera, a key trade point along one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. But big changes could be coming. While container ships are rare here in the main…
Somaliland project opens up Africa for DP World
BERBERA (HAN) May 28.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. BY: Awad Mustafa. The ports operator DP World is bullish on Africa and will expand further across the continent following a deal to create a new gateway in Somaliland, on its eastern coast. “I am very bullish about Africa and I believe it still has a…
SOMALILAND 5 YEAR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN: A PLAN WITH NO REVIEW MECHANISM.
HARGEISA (HAN) May 21.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. BY: Mohammed Dahir Ahmed. PART ONE: It was a noteworthy endeavor for Somaliland to set a comprehensive five year national development plan. There were two national plans prior to this with shorter time span, one was two years development plan (1998-1999) and one was three years…
Somaliland battles for recognition and resources
Somaliland remains a strand of British colonial history very few know about, and a place whose tangled legacy even fewer in power consider due to political expediencies. Hence this internationally unrecognised but de facto sovereign nation continues to go it alone, as it has done since proclaiming independence from Somalia 25 years ago today, following a civil…
Somaliland: Exactly Twenty Five
Exactly 25 years ago, after a ferocious civil war, north-west Somalia broke away from the rest of the country and declared itself independent. A quarter of a century later, not a single country recognises Somaliland, but this territory of about 3.5 million people is arguably one of the more stable, democratic places in the Horn…
