Challenge of democratization – Immersion in Somaliland Elections Experience : The role of the Independent Scholars Group The Independent Scholar’s Group: the Voice of the Civil Society The ISG known as the “Aqoonyahanka Madaxabanaan” appeared in Somaliland at an...
Lessons from Somaliland 2nd Local Council Election: My Field Experience This election had two equally heavy objectives: a) Election of the Local Councilors b) Qualification of National Political Parties There was a lapse of nine years and seven months between the...
Lessons from Somaliland’s 2010 Presidential Elections: What Democratic Spaces, What Opportunities? This paper examines progress and obstacles in the transition to representative democracy in Somaliland, drawing specifically on our experiences from the 2010...
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...
