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Somalia: General elections in Somaliland
President Dahir Riyale, elected head of Somaliland in May 2002, is running for re-election. Rather stable and relatively prosperous because spared from clan wars because of the homogeneity of the Issak clan. Somaliland voted despite threats from the Shebab Islamist insurgents who control much of the rest of Somalia.
For this election, Somaliland was aiming to show that it is a full-fledged state, has its place in the international community, but it is not certain at all that the Saturday’s vote could have impacted any possible International recognition.
However, for many voters, voting was at least a way to seal a permanent separation from the rest of Somalia and reigning disorder there for years.
The elections have been passed without incident, but with the borders still closed, and the fears of Al Shebab’s retaliation, the biggest group of Islamists in Somalia, who have previously declared: “You have only two choices, either you follow the trail blazed by Allah, either you choose the democratic system supported by the infidels of the West”
The official results, of the Somaliland elections, should not be known before one week.