Epstein Secrets

lling 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. Somaliland is a willing partner in

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

can Union on the increasingly abstract notion of the unity and territorial integrity of the Somali Republic. with Somalilanders governed again from Mogadishu. is both unrealistic and unsupported by more than twenty years of state practice. My attempt to re-impose centralized control by Mogadishu would alm

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.

the government managed to persuade Parliament to suspend an existing law that had explicitly forbidden the government from entering a dialogue with Mogadishu — proof that the govemment is keen to forge progress pragmatically and constructively. 7. What is the government doing in practice to win the case

nuing to lobby the AU. In 2010, the Peace and Security Council directed the AU Commission Chairperson to 'broaden consultations with Somaliland and Puntland" which we welcome. We are strengthening ties with African countries alongside the UK, US and EU. The President and Foreign Minister have been recei

r the last 20 years, driven in part by conflict related displacement amongst the rural population. Forty one per cent of the urban dwellers live in Mogadishu, the capital and the largest urban area in the country. Roughly twenty per cent of the population are either internally displaced, or are refugees i

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