Somaliland is an Overlooked African Success Story - - - - New York Times

[Jacaylbaro]

When the sun rises over the craggy hills of Hargeysa, it sheds light on a different kind of Somalia.

 

Ice cream trucks hit the streets. Money changers, unarmed and unguarded, push cash through the market in wheelbarrows. Politicians from three distinct parties get ready for another day of debate, which recently included animated discussion on registering nomadic voters.

 

This tale of two Somalias is especially striking now, as thousands of African Union peacekeepers prepare to rescue Mogadishu, the nation's capital, from itself. The internationally backed transitional government that seized Mogadishu in late December with Ethiopia's help says it cannot survive without foreign aid and foreign peacekeepers to quell clan fighting and an escalating insurgency.

Residents of Somaliland, who have wrestled with their own clan conflicts, find this ridiculous.

 

They have demobilized thousands of the young gunmen who still plague southern Somalia and melded them into a national army. They have held three rounds of multiparty elections, no small feat in a region, the Horn of Africa, where multiparty democracy is mostly a rumor. Somalia, for one, has not had free elections since the 1960s.

 

Its leaders, with no Western experts at their elbow, have designed a political system that minimizes clan rivalries while carving out a special role for clan elders, the traditional pillars of Somali society.

 

The New York Times

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Cant view the source are u sure this is a new article its seems its an old one from 5 years ago.

[LANDER]

"They limited the number of political parties to three to prevent a repeat of the fragmentation of the 1960s, when nationwide elections spawned more than 60 political parties, essentially one for each subclan. It was an attempt to create parties based on ideology, not tribe, something that has proven difficult across Africa."

 

Now that Siilanyo has opened up political parties and you see the like of SSC type parties coming to light, what does this mean for Somaliiland and its ability to created post-tribal political parties

 

 

 

P.S Haji google the article and you will find it

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/world/africa/07iht-somalia.4826198.html?pagewanted=all

[Jacaylbaro]

Now that Siilanyo has opened up political parties and you see the like of SSC type parties coming to light, what does this mean for Somaliiland and its ability to created post-tribal political parties

It is not what Siilaanyo did, it is what the constitution says.

 

To create post-tribal politics parties, there are certain rules for creating parties to avoid the party being a clan-based one. I guess you can find those rules and it is the base of the process in order for the party to be registered.