Stress Test for Somaliland's Democracy

 The Heinrich Boll Stiftung published on 27 June 2022 an analysis titled "Stress Test for Somaliland's Democracy" by Ulf Terlinden and Mohamed Ibrahim.  

Differences over plans to reshuffle Somaliland's licensed political parties and the sequencing of elections raise questions over the electoral calendar.

Somaliland's House of Elders Creates Political Crisis

The International Crisis Group published on 21 May 2015 an analysis titled "Somaliland's Guurti Sparks a Crisis" by Cedric Barnes and Claire Elder.  The Guurti or House of Elders announced a two-year extension of the current government's term, including further postponement of the presidential and parliamentary elections due this June.  The announcement prompted widespread protests.

Governance in Somaliland

Somaliland Parliament, 7/24/11. Flickr/Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The Africa Research Institute (ARI), an independent, non-partisan think tank based in London, published in May 2013 a paper titled "After Borama: Consensus, Representation and Parliament in Somaliland."

ARI interviewed ten prominent Somalilanders, including the three speakers of the House of Representatives, two government ministers, MPs, civil society activists and representatives of women's organizations.  The conversations focus on the way in which political stability has been secured in the two decades since the landmark 1993 Conference of Elders took place in Borama.  Controversial issues such as clan politics and the concentration of power, the campaign to secure a role for women in politics, the consequences of the lack of voter registration, the future role of the House of Elders, and the conduct of international donors are covered.