Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hargeisa (/ h ɑːr ˈ ɡ eɪ s ə / har-GAY-sə; Somali: Hargeysa; Arabic: هرجيسا, romanized: Harjīsā) [4] [5] is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Somaliland, a de facto sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, still considered internationally to be part of Somalia.
In 1960, the then independent State of Somaliland merged with Italian Somaliland to form the Somali Republic. By 1964, the then Hargeisa District merged with the Borama district (now Awdal) and the Berbera district (now Sahil) to form the Woqooyi Galbeed region (literally North West, also known as Hargeisa region).
Hargeisa City (Somali: Caasimada Hargeysa) is a Capital City in the Maroodi Jeex region in Somaliland. Its capital lies at Hargeisa . Other settlements in the district include Daarbuduq .
Somaliland nationality law defines who is a Somaliland citizen, [169] as well as the procedures by which one may be naturalised into Somaliland citizenship or renounce it. [ 170 ] The Somaliland government continues to apply the 1962 penal code of the Somali Republic.
26 June District (Somali: Degmada 26 June) is a district in Hargeisa, Somaliland. It is one of the eight administrative districts of Hargeisa City. [1] [2] June 26 is the date of independence of British Somaliland as the State of Somaliland in 1960. [3] Situated in it are Radio Hargeisa, and the Gobonimo market. [4]
The Government of Somaliland consists of legislative, executive, and judicial branches, each of which functions independently from the others. The Government runs under the framework established by the Constitution of Somaliland, adopted in 2001. It is a unitary state. [1] [2] The seat of the government is located in Hargeisa, the capital of ...
Upon independence in 1960, the Somali Republic maintained the 12 districts of the former Italian Somaliland and British Somaliland that merged to form the new country. [3] In 1964, a new Northeastern (Burao) Province was established by merging Burao, Erigavo, and Las Anod and a Northwestern (Hargeisa) Province was formed from Berbera, Borama ...
[1] [2] The administrative-territorial division of the country is established by the Law of Somaliland No. 23/2002 (Somali: Xeerka Ismaamulka Gobolada iyo Degmooyinka), which was finally approved in 2007. Somaliland is a self-declared unrecognized sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, internationally considered [3] [4] to be part of Somalia.