An Analysis of the Constitutional Court of Somaliland A well functioning democracy requires an independent and impartial Constitutional Court to resolve constitutional disputes that may arise in a peaceful manner. In this article Mohamed Farah examines the challenges...
Traditional Institutions in modern governance: the House of Elders Since 2002 all of Somaliland’s governing institutions have been subjected to public elections, with the exception of the Upper House of the parliament – the House of Elders (Guurti). The Somaliland’s...
Local Council Elections: Somaliland’s Experience Elections alone do not make a democracy. A measure of Somaliland’s democracy will be the way its elected institutions function. Highly localised democratic practices have been a characteristic of Somali pastoralist...
Swimming Against the Current: A Women’s Experience in running for the First Somaliland Parliament Elections in 2005 Somaliland’s parliamentary election in 2005 was an historic event twice over, being the first parliamentary elections in Somaliland and the first time...
Free and Fair Elections and the Role of International Civil Society Observers Since Somaliland’s first district elections in 2002, the international NGO Progressio has played an important supportive role by organising and facilitating international election observers....
