Elections
Somalia Enclave Votes With Hopes for Trump’s Formal Recognition
- Vote takes place amid tensions over Ethiopia port deal
- Somalia sees enclave as an integral part of its territory
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Somaliland holds a long-delayed election on Wednesday amid hopes a new US administration will back the breakaway region’s campaign to gain formal recognition.
The vote has been on hold for two years, a delay the authorities attributed to technical and financial constraints. It takes place against the backdrop of flaring tensions with Somalia’s federal government over a deal that will allow Ethiopia to build a military base on Somaliland’s coast on the Gulf of Aden.