Two of the
greatest achievements of the Somaliland Administration have been peace and stability.
There are still many things that could have done better which the government couldn’t
have been blamed for.
The
government did their part although they didn’t give their 100%. There are many other reasons that are
standing in the way of Somaliland getting recognized as an independent country
which are: it occupies one of the smallest, poorest and least developed country
in Somalia so there are no many other countries which are interested in it and
for that reason experts think that it can’t be viable state. Many countries in
Africa, which are very close to Somaliland such as Ethiopia doesn’t want to
recognize it as independent from Somalia because they are afraid parts in their
country will do the same.[1]
The solution to this problem would be every
citizen should do their parts to better the community. If they all put in as
much as they can such as trying to start their own businesses or starting to
pick up the trash, more tourist will come and that’ll attract abroad attention.
Somalilanders
thinking have moved from basic survival to searching for a better life on a
continued basis of finding worldwide recognition. To shows the world that they
deserve judgment when looking at their case. They are working on increasing employment
rates and so that unemployment rates could reduce. That will also bring down
the number of poor people. They are also working on improving the availability
and accessibility of social services.[2]
Most of these attempts of the government trying to improve the situation of the
citizens fail most of the time. It fails because maintaining peace cost over
70% of the government’s revenues and that includes preventing the country
Al-Shabaab from entering the country.
Somaliland
as a whole could do so many other things to make worldwide countries realize that
Somaliland deserves international recognition. One of the ways to do this is
increasing their economy by decreasing non useful things they import from other
countries like Qat. This will increase the rate of the economy in two ways, saving
the money that goes to Ethiopia every day for useless product (Qat) and people doing
double the amount of work they normally do when consuming Qat. This isn’t the
only thing they could do to make country look better in other views but this is
definitely a good first step.
In the future, if I would have to be part of
the officials of the government I will fill in many gaps that the government
can’t see now, for example they don’t see women as valuable member in the
thinking and work in the country. I would be a great representative for all women
and bring their ideas to the government which helped many other countries
around the world and became successful for that reason.
