Somaliland Armed Forces

The armed forces of Somaliland ( Somali: Ciidanka Qaranka ) have about 28,000 professional soldiers who, with the exception of some officers, a monthly pay of $ 100 erhalten.Das annual military budget of Somaliland in 2006 amounted to 41 billion Somaliland shilling, which is about 5.4 million euros corresponds. The military is run from headquarters in Hargeisa. The soldiers of Somaliland are most of poorly trained. Some soldiers (mainly officers ) were trained by Ethiopia.

Bases

In addition to the headquarters in Hargeisa, Somaliland maintains uA Bases in Burao, Shimibirale in Sanaag, Lowiya'adho on the border with Djibouti and Lasanod in disputed between Puntland and Somaliland Sool.

Equipment

Due to an embargo of the UN and the lack of international recognition of Somaliland officially can not purchase weapons. Therefore, Somaliland has to rely on to keep the equipment acquired in 1990 from Somalia repaired. Were taken, inter alia, Battle tanks, transport tanks, rocket launchers and trucks. The extent to which maintenance has succeeded is not known. Many of the acquired vehicles and weapons are no longer operational due to lack of spare parts. Army personnel Somaliland indicated that they had received weapons from Ethiopia and Yemen. These supplies are to night landing at the port of Berbera and discharged after blocking for civilians. Other known sources of equipment are among other businessmen from Somaliland, who donated some trucks the armed forces and a 2011 due to lack of fuel landed in Hargeisa plane, which was carrying equipment for Puntländischen forces. The soldiers of Somaliland military bring their weapons ( at least mostly ) in the case of the obligation itself. Somaliland soldiers were seen with SKS carbines and various versions of the AK -47.

Somaliland maintains BM -21, BGM -71 TOW, BTR -50, T-34 and T -55. 3 armed vehicles were captured by the Khatuma militia, which was confirmed by the defense minister of Somaliland. However, this claimed to have then brought the vehicle back under control.

Marine

The Navy of Somaliland was established in 2009 due to the rising piracy in the Horn of Africa and equipped by the United Kingdom. In January 2012, the Navy had a 300 -strong staff who had completed an eight-month training. The Navy operates with armed speedboats, pickups and trucks. In Berbera, there is a dive center run by foreigners with the main objective of the training of Marines. The Navy has already achieved success after their preparation. There were hundreds of pirates are arrested, which were then placed in Germany and sentenced to imprisonment.