28 / 07 / 2010
Somaliland: democratic beacon, but no easy model. Democracy Digest.
There are lessons for Somalia in the election of Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud ’Silanyo‘ as Somaliland’s third democratically elected President, whose inauguration has confirmed the durability of the country’s democratic institutions in an inhospitable regional environment.
“With few, if any, appropriate role-models amongst neighboring states…Somaliland achieved an election and a transfer of power that many more established [...]