somaliland

Somaliland elections: Provisional results indicate win for Ahmed Silanyo of the Kulmiye party – President Riyale defeated, the country’s National Electoral Commission says

International development organisation Progressio, the Development Planning Unit at University College London (UCL) and Somaliland Focus (UK) have welcomed the announcement of provisional results of Somaliland’s presidential election, held on 26 June 2010.

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 progress is being made towards holding the scheduled vote this Saturday. The first teams of observers left the mission’s base in Hargeisa for Somaliland’s regions on 24 and 25 June.

Somaliland: Co-ordinators of international election observers give cautiously positive assessment for the holding of election

As part of the UK-based team coordinating election observers for the much-delayed presidential elections in the internationally unrecognised Republic of Somaliland, Progressio today expresses its profound disappointment and concern at news that the poll will be postponed indefinitely.

Leading authorities on Somaliland – including notable scholars and members of the UK-based team coordinating observers for the country’s much-delayed presidential elections – have issued an urgent call to political leaders in the internationally unrecognised country to find “a speedy resolution” to the crisis which has seen the presidential poll postponed four times since April 2008.