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e strides setting up some of the institutions and rules necessary for businesses to operate". • Somaliland is connected to the rest of the world by Berbera airport, which has one of the longest runways in Africa as well as Hargelsa International Airport, which is undergoing extensive modernisation. The

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

deterrent to potential investors. • Insurance costs: Non-recognition complicates Insurance coverage as foreign vessels wanting to use the port of Berbera have to pay higher insurance premiums. The perception of risk. exacerbated by foreign travel advisories, also forces higher insurance costs on busin

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

nference. O Ethiopia has an established office and diplomatic Counsellor in Hargeisa. O Somaliland and Ethiopia have close trade ties - the port at Berbera is the second- most important harbour, after Djibouti. for imports to and exports from landlocked Ethiopia. O Ethiopian Airways has regular schedul

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