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Ethiopian Airlines. • Berbera port already serves imports and exports to and from Somaliland as well as the neighbouring countries of Ethiopia and Somalia. • Tourism is a potential growth industry, with historic towns, offshore islands and coral reefs providing major attractions. 2. Peace and securit

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

s that this is a 'policing' operation. Recognition would also make it possible to exclude Somaliland from international sanctions rightly imposed on Somalia as a whole. EFTA00795455 • Piracy: The Somaliland coast borders the vital commercial waterway of the Gulf of Men. currently threatened by pirate

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

e division or fragmentation of existing states should be managed peacefully and by negotiation. But where this is not possible, as is the case with Somalia. international law accepts that the interests of justice may prevail over the principle of territorial integrity.' • 2005 African Union fact-findin

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

and's legal claim rests on its history — the fact that it was granted independence by Britain in 1960 and, having entered an unsuccessful union with Somalia, simply wants to return to its original sovereign borders. Importantly, Somaliland has all the attributes of statehood as defined by the 1933 Monte

r have been received warmly in Addis, London and Washington in recent months. Senior Ministers and diplomats from across the world have also visited Hargeisa. At the same time, Somaliland is building its relationships with key multilateral institutions such as the Intergovernmental Authority on Developme

c: is an area located on the eastern horn of Africa, just north of Ethiopia. It is about the size of Arkansas. Currently, the UN sees it as part of Somalia, though it seeks independence from Somalia and operates essentially as an autonomous region. For those of us that have seen the movie Biackhowk OoL

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