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   Zecharias Zelalem (zekuzelalem@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 03:18:26 JST Zecharias Zelalem

   Polls have closed!
   In Somaliland that is. The only fully functioning democracy in the Horn of Africa held Presidential elections today, with over a million registered voters. Since 1991, Somaliland has been a self declared independent republic. It isn't formally recognized as a state by the international community & is considered a part of Somalia.

   President Muse Bihi Abdi & two competitors are each promising voters that they will secure international recognition if elected.

   • Timnit Gebru (she/her) and Glyn Moody repeated this.
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     Zecharias Zelalem (zekuzelalem@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 03:38:45 JST Zecharias Zelalem

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     • Panda

     @panda I believe so. It's why China is so fervently against any sort of recognition of Somaliland. Nobody in Africa has gone that route, especially in a region completely enveloped by the Chinese Belt and Road initiative

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     Panda (panda@freiburg.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 03:38:46 JST Panda

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     @ZekuZelalem does Taiwan still have a representative bureau there?

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     Zecharias Zelalem (zekuzelalem@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 03:45:48 JST Zecharias Zelalem

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     Al Jazeera coverage of Somaliland's elections.

     The rest of the Horn of Africa looks on with envy :( it's either no elections with dictators for life, elections with half of the candidates in jail, or elections with most of the country unable to participate.

     The only effective democracy in the region is in an unrecognized territory, formally in northern Somalia.

     https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/13/somaliland-eyes-recognition-as-it-goes-to-polls