The self-declared republic of Somaliland voted this past weekend for a new president. Somaliland is the one corner of Somalia that functions, but the international community refuses recognize it as a nation-state. Is the West scuppering its best chance for democracy in the region?

KULMIYE’S FOREIGN POLICY STATEMENT,

Jun 06^th, 2010

 Dr. Mohamed A Omar (Hargeisa Somaliland, SomalilandGlobe.com) In the run up to the upcoming presidential election scheduled Jun26 2010, KULMIYE Foreign Affairs Secretary, Dr. Mohamed A Omar, released statement discussing the Kulmiye Party foreign affairs policy.

WASHINGTON, May 29, 2010, SomalilandGlobe.com  — The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according to defense officials and military documents.

Somaliland: ISG Situation Paper May 2010

Somaliland  2^nd Democratic  Presidential Election in Sight: 26 June,2010 

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  1. Introduction

In their 29^th of May, 2010 meeting, the ISG members discussed the preparation for the upcoming Presidential election to be held on the 26^th of June, 2010, and the recent process of the Voter List Display and Replacement of cards conducted in all regions and districts of Somaliland.

Editorial - Rayale wages war against the Commission through his minsters

The distribution of voter registration cards enters its final phase as the process receives overwhelming public support. The opposition parties praised this crucial step of Somaliland’s democratization. The international community is behind it and the Diaspora Somalilanders congratulated the Electoral Commission for their remarkable achievements particularly their neutrality.

Election Time

It is election Time; yes it is good to hear that we will have our long waited election. Did you make your mind and think on who you will give your vote too?? You should thing twice and look to who is running for this election first;

Signing the Code of Conduct is a Good Augury for Somaliland’s Presidential Polls 

 The much anticipated Presidential polls of Somaliland that had been repeatedly procrastinated by the failed and repugnant Riyale administration is finally seem to be afoot with the people of Somaliland are going to the polls in June next month to choose a new President; with the national political parties of  the country – have mostly recently inked the Election Code of Conduct in the presence of the high commands of the political parties, the chairman of the National Election Commission of Somaliland, the Somaliland’s Speaker of Parliament, the chairperson of the Election of Commission of Ghana and  a host of dignitaries drawn from the civil society. 

The Somaliland National Electoral Commission, the NEC, took delivery of more than a million a new voter registration cards that will replace the cards currently in the hands of the registered voters.

The new cards, which the NEC says were printed in South Africa after the voter registration list clean up process was concluded, are much more difficult to fake.

A Descent Into the Absurd

Distortion, Lies and Hyperbole: In Response to Gregory R. Copley’s article “Somaliland’s Presidential Election Assumes Growing Priority as Major Powers Sense Strategic Urgency of the Horn Situation”.