election

To quote one of my more knowledgeable colleagues: “Elections are funny things. Highly technical and procedural exercises that are yet filled with emotion and rhetoric.” During Britain’s recent election, emotion ran short. In Somaliland, it is present in spades. An election in a bit of Somalia is something to get emotional about.

Progressio, the Development Planning Unit of University College London (UCL) and Somaliland Focus (UK) congratulate the people of Somaliland and the National Electoral Commission on a peaceful expression of the popular will at the conclusion of their mission to observe Somaliland’s presidential election on 26 June 2010.

Election observers for presidential poll dispatch teams into far-flung regions of the country ahead of Saturday’s crucial vote The international mission to observe Somaliland’s long-delayed presidential election on 26 June 2010, led by UK based development agency Progressio, the Development Planning Unit at University College London and Somaliland Focus (UK) notes that good progres

I wonder how our General Election and resultant hung Parliament has been seen by our partners overseas? Scenes of voters turned away from polling stations in Sheffield, London and Manchester may undermine our legitimacy the next time Progressio joins a delegation of election observers in Somaliland. The UK proclaims good governance to all, but to what extent are our own institutions rising to t