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two decades, Somaliland has built a successful market economy, with GDP rising to $350 per capita - higher than Tanzania ($280). Eritrea ($190) and Ethiopia ($100). • Somaliland's private sector has enjoyed sustained growth, catalysed by low levels of regulation and a comparatively small government bure

g its coastline. ensuring that the waters off Somaliland's coast are largely free from pirate attacks. Nearly 90 pirates are currently in prison in Hargeisa. • Somaliland has demobilised clan militia. integrating them into unified police and military forces in the early 1990s. • Somaliland has removed

ef Economist Shanta Devarajan has hailed as a "success story' in Africa. The World Bank has assisted in the recent production of 'Doing Business in Hargeisa". The report comments that despite conflict and fragility in the surrounding region. the relative peace and security in Hargeisa in the past decade

ts on businesses trading in and with Somaliland. • Links to neighbouring countries: with approximately 65% of imports through Berbera destined for Ethiopia. full recognition with Ethiopia would enable the government to establish formal transit agreements - improving access to the country and boosting re

ent of criminals and controlling cross-national crime do not apply. 'Somaliland is a model that proves democratic governance in Somalia is possible. Hargeisa's connections to Mogadishu are limited to the extent that Somaliland's government is forced to deal with the effects of the TFG's failures. Somalil

m a number of other nations around the world. Somaliland has established offices in the USA. Canada, UK. Sweden. France. Norway. Belgium (Brussels) Ethiopia. Djibouti. Ghana. Kenya, South Sudan. South Africa and Yemen. and the Somaliland passport is accepted by South Africa. Kenya. Djibouti and Ethiopia.

es have been physically established in Somaliland. including UNDP. UNFPA, UNAIDS. UNHCR. UNICEF. WHO and WFP. O The UN Envoy to Somalia has visited Hargeisa on numerous occasions. • Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) O In February 2011, the Executive Secretary of IGAD. Mahboub Magri). vis

arning from Somaliland In a previous post we talked about the opportunity to build a platform, from scratch, based on building cobblestone roads in Ethiopia. There are some similarities to the work we do in terms of building a self- reinforcing system that provides an opportunity for creative problem solv

ople living primarily off the land through livestock (a population of over 24 million heads of cattle, cows, goats, and sheep!). The capital city of Hargeisa is accessible over land by crossing the border from Ethiopia (over that unpaved 28km road from the previous post). There is a budding tourism indus