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Somaliland: Governments
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Because Somaliland is not recognized, the IMF will not lend them any money. This has made it difficult, but it has ... been a blessing - Somaliland is virtually debt free! The government is run on a couple million dollars per year, and because of this lack of money they have little corruption within the government - another amazing fact.
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With Somaliland's survival no longer at issue between the two sides, the conflict has reverted to an admixture of political competition and ethnic (clan) prejudice of an essentially internal nature. Specific grievances against the government have already been well-documented, and comprise a range of complaints - some well-founded, some less so - against which the administration must one day, peacefully and publicly, defend itself. For the moment... the inability of the two sides to agree on who should talk to whom, poses an even greater obstacle to peace than any given issue. The government insists on being party to any settlement, while the Garxajis leadership refuses to negotiate with the government, insisting instead that negotiations take place only among clans (as happened at the end of the 1992 Somaliland civil war). Neither has shown any room for compromise on this point, and the process remains deadlocked.
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Somaliland chose not to participate in the process aimed at unifying Somali factions that was initiated by the government of Djibouti in 2000 in the Djiboutian town of Arta. The conference was organized along clan lines but included a cross-clan delegation of 100 women. A number of key factions and groups were not represented. The government of Somaliland not only refused to participate in the conference, but its Parliament passed a law that prohibited representatives of the government or private citizens to attend, declaring attendance a treasonable offense.
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The human rights record of Somaliland has been mixed, especially during the civil war of 1994-96. According to Amnesty International, there have been scattered allegations of torture, politically-motivated prosecutions and official intimidation of judges and journalists. Nevertheless, Amnesty gives the Somaliland government credit for improving human rights:
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A Kenyan woman working for a German Government aid organisation was shot dead in Somaliland in an ambush on the Hargeisa-Berbera Road, on 19 March. No motive has been established for the attack. The European Commission and many international NGOs are pulling their expatriate staff out of Somaliland. The UN is evacuating all but a minimum of essential staff from Somaliland.
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Locals woke up to find Somaliland troops and armed trucks along the road. The Somaliland forces were led by a local commander allied to the secessionist government in Hargeysa. Somaliland soldiers fired into a crowd of angry locals who attempted to place the objects back on the road. One young male was killed in the incident and three others, including a woman, were injured, a local journalist confirmed to Garowe Online. The situation in Las Anod grew calmer as the day progressed. By afternoon time, the riots came to a halt and the situation returned to normal.
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