Hargeisa (PP Information Desk)— Professor Ahmed Ismail Samatar criticised the Somaliland Administration’s strategy to looking for recognition for its unilateral secession, which marked its thirty third anniversary in Could. As Chairman of the political affiliation Hillaac, Professor Samatar dismissed the pursuit of recognition as quixotic. “Individuals stated, ‘Samatar brings recognition [for Somaliland], welcome him.’ Nevertheless, Somaliland has not earned the appropriate to be recognised. Its case has but to be cogently fleshed out,” Professor Samatar said at a political assembly in Hargeisa.
His remarks sparked a flood of tweets accusing him of “vanity” and “collaborating with the Federal Authorities of Somalia.” Final week, Professor Samatar met with the President of the Somaliland Administration Muse Bihi Abdi to debate the implications of the unlawful maritime Memorandum of Understanding that the Somaliland President signed with the Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed in January 2024. Professor Samatar knowledgeable President Bihi that Ethiopia can be violating each the African Union Constitution and the United Nations Constitution if it have been to recognise Somaliland as a rustic that seceded from the Federal Republic of Somalia.
In line with a senior member of Hillaac, Professor Samatar warned President Bihi that “Ethiopia shall be categorised as an anti-Somalia entity, on par with Al-Shabaab, if the Ethiopian authorities, in its seek for sea entry, promotes secession in Somalia.” In an interview with The Economist, President Bihi commented on the unlawful maritime MoU, stating, “They [Ethiopia] want the ocean as we’d like recognition.”
Some influential politicians in Hargeisa imagine that Somaliland’s secession is evolving right into a territorial dispute between Somalia and Ethiopia. “Ethiopia understands that its actions may very well be construed as destabilising and as offering help to Al-Shabaab, a militant, proscribed organisation that opposes the territorial in and political unity of the Federal Republic of Somalia,” stated an instructional in Hargeisa.
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