By diplomatic vernacular, the armistice and cooperation between neighbouring countries upkeep economic heightening, security enhancement, social sense of camaraderie and positive political constancy. Ethiopia’s miracle double digit economic growth and lucrative maturity as a developmental state derived under the possibility of Somaliland’s success by way of the veneration and respect with its neighbours expressly Ethiopia and Djibouti. For the reason that Somaliland has more than 600 km of borderline with its neighbour Ethiopia.
Government of Ethiopia is cognizant about the importance of Somaliland as an associate neighbour, and it is the interest of the two countries to work together on sustaining and nourishing peace, regional stability, economic cooperation and political companionship. Now the ball is on the court, Somaliland done its part and remained a good neighbour, but the sceptics are whether the Ethiopian authorities are doing the equivalent.
Somaliland offered thousands of jobs to your nationals (Ethiopian by origin), the country accommodated tens of thousands of Ethiopian jobseekers. Moreover, Somaliland dignified these immigrants to its maximum reverence and provided basic entitlements that worked their betterment of rights as a human being. This peaceful democratic nation of Somaliland, is the only Somali territory that recognises Ethiopia’s national borders, to my hopefulness you all copiously spring this into a supplementary contemplation.
On the other hand, the concept of dual citizenship is animated by the position from which it is viewed or approached. Somaliland is reluctant to recognize dual citizenship for the nationals of other country as written by its constitution. On the contrary, Ethiopia categorically does not recognize dual citizenship. In its Proclamation on Ethiopian Nationality, No. 378 of 2003, which lends detail to the Ethiopian Constitutional Article 6 on Citizenship.
As our country offered jobs and fundamental rights to your immigrants, it is indispensable to recognize your citizens of Gaashaamo and elsewhere in Ethiopia to the considered element of as such.
We recognized those innocent civilian including women and children massacred as Ethiopian nationals. But, they are also the origins of Somaliland whom we share blood in patrilineal terms as an immediate national of both countries. Tribally motives are the actual causation of these monotonous bloody occurrences, it will detonate a fire to the Ethiopia’s constitutional Administrative Divisions if urgent actions were not taken by the Central Government of Ethiopia.
Mohamed Hagi Mohamoud. Department of Politics and International Studies. The University of Warwick. Email:m.hagi-mohamoud@warwick.ac.uk, mohamedomar1@hotmail.com.