Somaliland goes to vote

Tumejichocha na fingerprint scanners while these ones are going for eye scanners.

Somaliland however is yet to be recognised by any “body that needs to give you recognition so that you can be a state”.

I think it’s high time wapewe yao. They have a stable nation. Even the Southern Sudanese cannot claim such stability.

Summary
-Somaliland going to vote
-Eye scanners to identify voters
-Still remains an unrecognised state
-Block social media for 12 hours during vote counting
-Human Rights Watch imemblein but hiyo ni kawaida yao

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http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/africa/Breakaway-Somaliland-to-elect-new-president/3126394-4182542-npm8d9z/index.html
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The self-proclaimed state of Somaliland will vote for a new president on Monday, hoping to continue a series of democratic transitions of power that sets it apart from its troubled neighbour Somalia.

The northern territory, which is more tribally homogenous and stable than the rest of Somalia, broke away in 1991 and has been striving to attain international recognition ever since.

Three candidates are running for the state’s top office, seasoned politicians Muse Bihi of the ruling Kulmiye party and opposition candidates Abdirahman Iro and Faysal Ali Warabe, who was defeated in previous elections in 2010.

CAMPAIGNS
Elections are meant to be held every five years, however the poll was delayed for two years due to drought and other technical issues.

Incumbent Ahmed Mohamud Silanyo is not seeking re-election.

Campaigning wrapped up on Friday after weeks of rallies around the region for Somaliland’s third democratic election.

The vote is set to be the most sophisticated yet with some 700,000 voters registered using biometric eye scanners, which will identify them before they cast their ballots.

“The sophisticated equipment, which was used to register voters, reads the eye of the individual and it’s the first time such equipment is used in elections,” Said Ali Muse, spokesman for the national electoral commission, said.

He said social media will be suspended during the counting of votes amid concerns of interference from outside the borders of the semi-autonomous state and speculation over results.

“It is very difficult to control social media and the overall media but we have requested the communication companies to temporarily suspend the social media platforms,” Mr Nur said.

The ban will go into effect after polls close at 6:00pm (1500 GMT).

Human Rights Watch bemoaned the move to curb social media in a statement Friday, saying that if Somaliland authorities were concerned about fake news and social unrest they should “disseminate accurate information and discourage violence”.

INDEPENDENCE
Somaliland writer and activist Barkhad Dahir, said the election was crucial to proving the state’s democratic credentials.

“It is not only the election itself and the leader but the process and the fairness, the international community is looking at us and if we are smart enough, we will vote smoothly to show we are a democracy,” he told AFP.

Somaliland, a former British protectorate, won independence in 1960 but days later joined with Somalia.

In 1991, after years of bitter war with the government in Mogadishu, it declared independence from the rest of the country.

VOTING
While anarchic southern Somalia has been riven by years of fighting between multiple militia forces and Islamist violence, Somaliland has enjoyed relative peace.

The one-person-one-vote democratic election process in Somaliland stands in stark contrast to that in Somalia, which elected a president earlier this year in a limited electoral process that saw handpicked clan elders choosing delegates who were allowed to vote.

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The isaaq clan of the Somaliland are quite mature while in their own country, the ones in Kenya are shit.

I smell an additional member to the irreducible group of demands!

Kenyan ones are Kenyans Hehe which could explain why they are the way are

have been to Hargeisa for a consulting job,… good city and undergoing great infrastructure development,

We have our Kenyan Somalis the Ogaden, Gurreh, Ajuran and the likes, who are from Former Northern frontier district, we also have the isaaq clan who were domestic workers for the British colonialist, who have no ancestral ushago in Kenya, the ones who used to live in the numerous kambi Somali in all the major towns, we had one in Eldoret, Kisumu, Nyeri, Nairobi grogan area before they were shifted to Eastleigh.

By the way when I was in Eldy I saw a Somali looking chap. I asked my cousin what he’s doing there and how he got this far in.
Thanks to your post, now I know.

True. They used to roam the country with Brits by the way.

hio ndio Puntland ama ? Puntlandd should colonise the schupid south na wasomali wako kenya warudi kwao

There are some in Naivasha, they speak perfect Gikuyu than the born Taos .

Haiya! Unashangaa? Wako wengi kama siafu. Starting with eastleigh hapo UG high, to maili nne - their capital. All the major wholesale stores and petrol stations at ile junction ya kwenda Moi uni pale kesses are theirs. All petrol stations after pipeline all the way to jua kali are theirs. Halafu juzi an assocoate of Abdulnassir the lawyer bought the colonial governor’s house sitting on 4 acres just behind statehouse lodge in Eldoret’s affluent Elgon View estate. These guys hata shiny eyes hawawezani nao kwa biashara