The Kaah Alliance for Equality and Development (, also known as simply Kaah, is a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

Somaliland Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is an List of states with limited recognition, unrecognised country in the Horn of Africa. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden and bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, E ...

. The party was founded by

Mohamoud Hashi Abdi Mohamoud Hashi Abdi (), commonly known as Ina Xaashi, is a Somaliland politician, who served as the Minister of Civil Aviation and Air Transport of Somaliland from July 2010 to October 2015. In October 2015, after the resignation of several cabi ...

in July 2022 as a Political Association, ahead of the

2024 Somaliland national political party election Elections were held in Somaliland on November 13, 2024 concurrently with the 2024 Somaliland presidential election to select the three official national List of political parties in Somaliland, political parties of the country for a period of ten ...

. Kaah came in second in the election and will official become one of the three national political parties in Somaliland, replacing

UCID The Justice and Welfare Party (, UCID; ), sometimes translated as the Justice and Welfare Association, and also known as For Justice and Development, was the oldest political party in Somaliland. The party tended to be supported by people from th ...

. The party has an alliance with the Waddani Party and supported their candidate and leader

Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi (, ; born 24 April 1956), colloquially known as Irro (), is a Somaliland politician and diplomat who has been the 6th and current President of Somaliland since 12 December 2024. Abdirahman served as speaker of t ...

in the 2024 presidential elections.

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