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Somaliland isn’t a country by international law. It looks like a country, has a government like a country and by all intents and purposes is a country but, by legal definition it is part of Somalia. Somaliland has been trying to get other countries to recognize its independence for a long time.
Jan 5, 2024 · By Kester Kenn Klomegah. January 5, 2024. Ethiopia, after attaining fully-fledged BRICS (an association consisting of nations) membership beginning 2024, has suddenly come under global condemnation over recognizing its neighbour Somaliland. As it political development stands, Ethiopia became the first African nation to publicly and officially ...
maintaining the colonial borders has presented a challenge to Somaliland garnering the support they need. As of 2007, both the European Union and the African Union has sent delegations to discuss the international recognition of Somaliland. So far, Ethiopia is the first State to officially recognize Somaliland as a Sovereign State.4
Mar 8, 2024 · Landlocked Ethiopia signed an initial agreement with Somaliland in January that would make it the first nation to recognize the sovereignty of the semi-autonomous region of Somalia, in return for ...
Jan 27, 2024 · However, the international community’s reluctance to recognize it as a de jure sovereign state remains a significant obstacle. It is an indisputable fact that Somaliland was a recognized independent country in 1960, prior to its unification with Italian Somaliland to form Somalia.
Jan 24, 2024 · Somaliland declared itself an independent state in 1991. It used colonial boundary lines to separate itself from Somalia. More than three decades later, however, it has yet to gain international ...
Oct 20, 2021 · Nonetheless, Somaliland today is far safer than southern Somalia—and freer than most African countries.The series of conferences that produced Somaliland’s governance model succeeded by the mid-1990s in ending much of the territory’s internal violence,and al-Shabaab, despite its strength in southern Somalia, has little presence in Somaliland.
