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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

Piracy: The Somaliland coast borders the vital commercial waterway of the Gulf of Men. currently threatened by pirates based largely in neighbouring Puntland; while some international aid has helped to strengthen the Somaliland coastguard. further collaboration. including the use of Somaliland ports by o

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.

bove). O in 2010. the African Union Peace and Security Council directed the AU Commission Chairperson to 'broaden consultations with Somaliland and Puntland". • The United Nations O 18 UN agencies have been physically established in Somaliland. including UNDP. UNFPA, UNAIDS. UNHCR. UNICEF. WHO and WFP.

nter-linked. They re-enforce and exacerbate each other. For example, polio in Pakistan, Nigeria Somalia and Syria and its recent spillover to Iraq, Ethiopia, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea demonstrate in the starkest terms how zones of instability are vulnerable to disease and its spillover. By better u

zed along competing clan and sub-clan lines — turned on each other. While some areas of Somalia, such as the northern quasi-states of Somaliland and Puntland — remained peaceful, clan and warlord based violence convulsed the southern and central regions of the country.n2 By mid-1992, the international co