Following the Borama conference, security in general improved; with a vigorous (if still financially constrained) militia demobilization programme, roadblocks were progressively removed and Igal gradually succeeded in re-establishing the basic structure of government which had collapsed in the 1980s and had failed to be restored in the first S.N.M. administration. Regular working hours were instituted for civil servants, who were now paid regularly. A planning ministry was established, whose work included liaison with foreign N.G.O.s and U.N. agencies, and the central bank reopened to administer the new Somaliland shilling as the national currency. Professionally equipped police forces (led by former local officers) were restored to the main towns: Hargeisa, Burao and Borama. At the same time, regional and district courts were reopened. Life was returning to normal – which it had not been since the last decade of Siyad’s regime.

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 660