Uganda MPs Push For Recognition Of Somaliland

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Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has been asked to initiate a path towards recognizing Somaliland as an independent state and open avenues to do business with the Horn of Africa nation.

A delegation of Uganda parliamentarians is in Somaliland capital Hargeisa for a fact-finding mission of the internationally unrecognized nation which is marking its 28th independence day on May 18.

The delegation is part of several others from Africa which will join the Somalilanders in marking almost three decades since severing ties with Somalia after the eruption of the civil war in 1991 where over 500,000 Somalilanders were killed by Somali led forces.

Led by the Uganda Parliamentary Committee Chairman on Foreign Affairs committee Hood Katuramu, the team from Kampala said it is time Uganda and the Africa Union recognized Somaliland as an independent state.

“If we are talking about pan Africanism, which Uganda prides itself to be a leader in this push, I think the time is ripe for us to recognize and start working with Somaliland,” Katuramu said when the Uganda delegation met a team of Somaliland at the parliament buildings in Hargeisa.

A member of the committee Akurut Violet Adome said Somaliland has met all requirements to be recognized as a state and wondered why a country already doing business with investors from other African nations, the middle east and Europe cannot be given international recognition.

“Somaliland has placed its case internationally and proved they deserve to be recognized. We will implore on our president Yoweri Museveni to move fast and recognize this nation,” said Adome.

Somaliland which merged with Southern Somalia in 1960 five days after gaining independence from the British broke ranks with Somalia after the start of the civil war.

Despite having recognized borders, a democratically elected government, a national currency and meeting other requirements, it remains unrecognized 28 years on.

The Ugandan delegation in Hargeisa includes Hood Katuramu, Violet Akurut Adome, Arinda Gordon Kakuuma, Komakech Lyandro, Sebaggala Abdulatif and Mutekanga Jacqueline.
 
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has been asked to initiate a path towards recognizing Somaliland as an independent state and open avenues to do business with the Horn of Africa nation.

A delegation of Uganda parliamentarians is in Somaliland capital Hargeisa for a fact-finding mission of the internationally unrecognized nation which is marking its 28th independence day on May 18.

The delegation is part of several others from Africa which will join the Somalilanders in marking almost three decades since severing ties with Somalia after the eruption of the civil war in 1991 where over 500,000 Somalilanders were killed by Somali led forces.

Led by the Uganda Parliamentary Committee Chairman on Foreign Affairs committee Hood Katuramu, the team from Kampala said it is time Uganda and the Africa Union recognized Somaliland as an independent state.

“If we are talking about pan Africanism, which Uganda prides itself to be a leader in this push, I think the time is ripe for us to recognize and start working with Somaliland,” Katuramu said when the Uganda delegation met a team of Somaliland at the parliament buildings in Hargeisa.

A member of the committee Akurut Violet Adome said Somaliland has met all requirements to be recognized as a state and wondered why a country already doing business with investors from other African nations, the middle east and Europe cannot be given international recognition.

“Somaliland has placed its case internationally and proved they deserve to be recognized. We will implore on our president Yoweri Museveni to move fast and recognize this nation,” said Adome.

Somaliland which merged with Southern Somalia in 1960 five days after gaining independence from the British broke ranks with Somalia after the start of the civil war.

Despite having recognized borders, a democratically elected government, a national currency and meeting other requirements, it remains unrecognized 28 years on.

The Ugandan delegation in Hargeisa includes Hood Katuramu, Violet Akurut Adome, Arinda Gordon Kakuuma, Komakech Lyandro, Sebaggala Abdulatif and Mutekanga Jacqueline.

This is the first time such a delegation from AU came to SL to actually push for our independence. Great news will come very soon
 

Grigori Rasputin

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I, as SL, do not buy this.

Clearly they’ve been lobbied and given hundreds of thousands of dollars.

That money should’ve gone to better roads for the so called capital

Somaliland does not deserve independence as long as their capital looks like something from the 1400
 
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