Domestic election observers during a training session in Hargeisa. They will be part of a team of over 600 observers who will be reporting on polling day using SMS. 'Because we are an emerging country, the world can see our democracy, so it’s important to show our process is fair and transparent,' says 21-year-old observer and student, Isir Guleid Hussein. [Kate Stanworth/Saferworld/Al Jazeera]
Somalilanders queue in Hargeisa, Somaliland, to cast their vote for presidential elections, Saturday, June 26, 2010. Electoral posters lined the streets of Somaliland as the republic prepared to hold its second presidential election on Saturday, an exercise in governance not seen for decades in the country’s anarchic south. (AP Photo/Barkhad Kaariye/AP)
