Monday, November 26, 2012

Somaliland: assets and liabilities



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.





[1] http://www.wardheernews.com/Articles_06/feb/23_Somaliland.HMohamed.html
[2] http://www.brainworker.ch/reports/Somaliland/Problems.htm

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