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

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

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

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

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