Somaliland
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- Vol 51 No 14
- 09/07/2010
We’re here to be recognised
Decent elections, an orderly transition and plans for investment bring hope at last to a small nation
- Vol 51 No 3
- 05/02/2010
Third time lucky
In the run-up to the presidential election, due but not confirmed in April, political squabbles are increasing. President Dahir Riyale Kahin accused his rival, Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo of the Peace, Unity and Development Party (Kulmiye) of wanting a unified ...
- Vol 50 No 19
- 25/09/2009
American airlift
When United States special forces landed near the Shabaab-held Somalian town of Barawe to assassinate and carry off several members of the Al Shabaab jihadist group on 12 September, they changed the rules of engagement in the war in Somalia. This wil...
- Vol 48 No 21
- 19/10/2007
How many states for the north?
Tension between Somaliland (created in 1991) and the much less firmly established Puntland (created 1998) has been running high. On 1 July, yet another state, Maakhir, was inaugurated in northern Somalia and Puntland blamed that, unfairly, on Somalilan...
- Vol 44 No 10
- 16/05/2003
Count and discount
Mediation continues in a bid to calm the controversy following the 14 April presidential election. This saw Dahir Riyal Kahin, one of the late dictator Mohamed Siad Barre's political police chiefs, win by a margin that would have been familiar to his old ...
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