of tens of thousands of people from the diaspora. Fifteen out of 32 Cabinet and Ministerial positions in the current administration are made up of Somalilanders who have returned from abroad. Somaliland is moving to EFTA00794346 develop what is estimated to be highly significant hydrocarbon reserves in the

Somaliland. insistence by the African 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