The collapse of the unified Somali state under General Mohammed Siyad
Barre in 1991 after protracted civil war left in its wake widespread
dislocation, death and destruction. Yet despite the chaos in southern
and central Somalia, the northwest region of Somaliland has achieved the
type of progress in governance to which the rest of Somalia can only
aspire. This former British protectorate has been defined by a relative
peace and calm and the development of an emerging set of state
institutions. Somaliland has developed its own structures and systems of
governance, drawing on elements of a kin-based system that provided the
organising structure for social, economic and political activity during
centuries of nomadic pastoralist history...Source: Develoment Progress.org
Link: Somaliland’s progress on governance: A case of blending the old and the new
