Local politicians are set on Somaliland secession from Somalia as pending votes complicate plans

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo recently claimed that more than 1 million citizens, out of the country’s population of 3.4 million, had signed a petition calling for the international community to recognize Somaliland. Since 1991, and the collapse of the Siad Barre regime in…