SOMALILAND EXPANDS TERTIARY EDUCATION SECTOR, BUT LACK OF INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF SELF-DECLARED STATE IMPEDES PROGRESS
July 2nd, 2020
Somaliland’s higher education capacity may have been growing, but a lack of financial and human resources and the continued lack of international recognition of its country’s self-declared independent status continue to impede progress, say local education leaders.
Ahmed Musa, director-general at the ministry of higher education of the Republic of Somaliland, said infrastructure weaknesses and a shortage of qualified teaching and non-teaching staff were to blame.
Noting that the 1991 civil war with Somalia's dictator, former President Siyad Barre, which led ...
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