Somaliland is reluctant to welcome all pirates.

(BRUSSELS2) Yuri Fedotov, director of UNODC, visited (March 29) the renovated prison of Hergheisa in Somaliland, which has a capacity of 425 places and currently houses 297 prisoners, 88 of whom are pirates from all regions of Somalia . But this independence province of Somalia seems reluctant to do more. “The question of the transfer is not yet accepted ” underlined Ismail Moummir Aar, the Minister of Justice of Somaliland. “Each territory must prosecute its own pirates,” he believes, specifying that the “ Somaliland is ready to repatriate its nationals prosecuted for piracy " somewhere else. A declaration that dampens the hopes of the international community and in particular of the Seychelles (which recently signed a transfer agreement with the Somali authorities) of being able to transfer the convicted pirates to prisons on Somali territory. It should be noted that all the pirates present in the prison were intercepted by the Somaliland Coast Guard or by the local population. And there do not appear to be any Somaliland nationals held in other prisons.

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