TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY PETER MARTELL Pr

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY PETER MARTELL Prisoners sit on March 8, 2012 in Hargesia's newly-refurbished prison in the northern breakaway nation of war-torn Somalia. Officers inside the jail were preparing cells for the transfer of 19 pirates Somaliland had agreed to host -- with more expected to follow -- captured by international navies and convicted in the Seychelles. It is a sensitive matter for fiercely independent Somaliland, keen to win favor with the international community by showing its commitment to fight piracy, but also wary since the convicts are from Somalia. While war rages in southern Somalia -- where regional armies and government troops battle Al-Qaeda allied Shebab fighters -- the relative stability achieved in Somaliland offers a sliver of hope for the rest of the anarchic land. AFP PHOTO / SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images)