in 1991, somaliland declared independence from the rest of the country.t's still officially part of somalia, but now has its own democratically elected government. and it has peace. the economy is growing, although most of the population is still poor. a few years ago, the bad economic situation also prompted businessman abdirahman blackie to leave the country. abdirahman: on the day that i left this country, i was convinced that it had nothing to offer me. i think everyone who leaeaves their homeland thinks that way. but if they only knew how sweet, how precious and deserving of respect their own country is, i'm sure they'd all stay. reporter: he tried his luck in saudi arabia, but eventually returned disillusioned. today, he has a flourishing business in hargeisa. he sells food, exchanges money, and pursues other opportunities. nuurdin abdullahi hasn't had things quite so easy. he, too, is a former migrant, who left his business and family behind in somalilandnd to cros the mediterranean to europe. today, he's back, working as a day laborer in a warehou

i have to be patient as somaliland still has very little infrastructure but there are many of us here who have got things moving. now he fret employs four people to do the baking and two service personnel she trained them all herself . to escape somalia a seemingly endless cycle of war parents fled the country when she was just a child in one thousand nine hundred one somaliland declared independence from the rest of the country it's still officially part of somalia but now it has its own democratically elected government and it has peace the economy is growing although most of the population is still poor a few years ago the bad economic situation also prompted businessmen up the rattlin blacky to leave the country. and. the day that i left this country i was convinced that it had nothing to offer me i think everyone who leaves their home and thanks that way but if they only knew how sweet how precious and deserving of respect their own country is i'm sure they'd all stay. oh he tried his luck inside. rabia but eventually returned to solution a draft. today he has a flourishing busin

former migrants are now opening businesses everywhere back in somaliland teahouse owner. is visiting a friend who used to live in canada she's opened a beauty salon. the women give each other business tips and tackle problems together. one of our country needs everything and so whatever kind of bill. this you can open you can succeed in a way that might but you have to be patient and not give up at the first hurdle and i think that's what's needed she says is more training opportunities for young people in somaliland and more information about the risks and the challenges of trying to start a new life in europe or elsewhere. abdirahman blackie who returned from saudi arabia agrees. i tell you how i describe it well migration is a virus and it's infected our society. people need to pull together to fight against it politicians academics the whole of society needs to come together to find solutions wolf is wrong and one solution would certainly be to invest more money in education and lucky composes letters for those unable to read or write because so many are illiterate he

is my and in in a necessary sometimes needless war we have you know semi-autonomous regions of somaliland and put into land something that it cannot afford secondly you know as long as this government doesn't focus nor just doesn't doesn't continue making you know military solution as the only solution to all of you know service sector doesn't improve you know education health doesn't improve that is going to be very difficult for the kenyan government what really needs to happen right now is for number one to avoid a reflexive reaction of going on targeting profiling the somali kenyans who are living in kenya for the african union mission in somalia they really these moments raise serious questions about you know the efficacy of their methodologies not to say that they need to withdraw now but i think some of these discussions need to happen now if we ever have to defeat these groups and so kenya somalia as well as the african union and united states need to have very serious from composition about what they want to achieve in defeating ok appreciate that thanks very much in the hebrew t