Highlighting Democracy in Somaliland

 The Royal United Services Institute published on 4 June 2021 a report titled "Spotlighting an African Rarity: A Poor but Democratic Nation" by Greg Mills, John Githongo, John Steenhuisen, Abbasali Haji, Chipokota Mwanawasa, and Tendai Biti.

The report concludes that Somaliland's progress should shame those much richer African countries where political incumbents are rolling back democracy because it threatens their power and financial privilege.  

Somaliland's Secession from Somalia

The Palgrave Series in African Borderland Studies published in 2019 Secessionism in African Politics with a chapter titled "Against the Grain: Somaliland's Secession from Somalia" by Markus Virgil Hoehne, University of Leipzig.

The author argues that Somaliland's secession from Somalia did not follow careful cost-benefit calculations or involve the bargaining of a minority with a majority in power or a center. Rather, the unilateral declaration of independence of Somaliland was the unforeseen result of an anti-regime struggle.

Somaliland's Forgotten Genocide

The Nation published on 22 October 2018 an article titled "In the Valley of Death: Somaliland's Forgotten Genocide" by Ismail Einashe and Matt Kennard, both investigative journalists.

Between 1987 and 1989, the Siad Barre regime in Somalia massacred an estimated 200,000 members of the Somali Isaaq clan in northwest Somalia. The authors assert that the United States, which was allied with Somalia at the time, turned a blind eye to Siad Barre's abuses.