Somaliland Warns Foreigners against Taking part in Voter Registration

[Jacaylbaro]

Hargeisa (Observer): On 16 October, The Minister of Interior of Somaliland, Abdillahi Ismail Irro, issued a strong directive warning non-Somalilanders against trying to obtain voter registration and nationality cards during the electronic registration exercise that has started in Somaliland on 14 October.

 

The directive also warned Somaliland citizens against helping illegal aliens to obtain these cards. The directive specified that those who are caught trying to obtain these cards illegally or those citizens caught helping them could face long imprisonment.

 

Registration started in the coastal Sahil region. There have been reports that some people who are not Somaliland citizens have been trying to register and in some cases where being assisted by Somaliland citizens hoping to register loyal voters for the upcoming presidential elections. There are large communities of Ethiopian, especially Oromo Ethiopians in Somaliland. There are also large numbers of Somalis who fled war-torn Somalia. The Somaliland government considers these Somalis refugees and according to the citizenship Law they are ineligible for Somaliland citizenship.

[Xaq]

how would you differentiate between who is a somalilander and who is not? what are the laws regarding who is or is not a somalilander?

[Jacaylbaro]

There are measures sxb .....

[nuune]

^^ , I think Xaq is looking for more answers than that, qanci ninka sxb!

[Koora-Tuunshe]

loool. You mean Somalis from the south are foreigners?

[peasant]

Duriyada hadii aadan ahyn sharci lagu siin maayo

[Jacaylbaro]

nuune,,

 

 

Koora, yes they are foreigners according in the legal terms.

[Xaq]

what is the law on who is a somalilnader?

[Jacaylbaro]

YOU CAN FIND IT HERE

[NGONGE]

2. Any female (Somaliland) citizen who marries a male alien shall lose her citizenship if she accepts[39] her husband’s citizenship.

 

3. A female citizen, who is married to a husband who has renounced his Somaliland citizenship and acquired another citizenship, shall lose[40] her (Somaliland) citizenship unless the husband was a refugee.

 

Ouch! OUCH!

[Nephissa]

The Somaliland government considers these Somalis refugees and according to the citizenship Law they are ineligible for Somaliland citizenship.

 

We're being tribally profiled in our own country. That is pitiful.

[NGONGE]

^^ We? Our? Own? You must be married to a Somalilander.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Some one is somalilander if he is from somaliland tii la sameeye 1884. borders are

from lawyacade ila yoocade

[The Zack]

Originally posted by Xaq:

how would you differentiate between who is a somalilander and who is not? what are the laws regarding who is or is not a somalilander?

All you gotta do is talk like they talk ( or atleast try and say I am habar something) and you will be able to vote.

[Malika]

Originally posted by Nephthys:

quote:

The Somaliland government considers these Somalis refugees and according to the citizenship Law they are ineligible for Somaliland citizenship.

 

We're being tribally profiled in our own country. That is pitiful.

Your words reminded me of a prominent Somali nationalist,Mr Michail Mariano whom once said to the British 'The Somali people are one and the same yet you are trying to divide two brothers with these lines, I assure you that nothing will stop them coming together'

 

Ah! What happen to the much bigged up democracy? :confused: