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Independence Day of Somaliland is an annual celebration and a public holiday in Somaliland and neighbouring Somalia that commemorates the proclamation of independence of the short-lived independent State of Somaliland on 26 June 1960.
Independence Day in Somaliland (Arabic:عيد استقلال أرض الصومال) is an annual celebration held on 18 May in Somaliland to mark the polity's declaration of independence from the Somali Democratic Republic, a unilateral proclamation which remains unrecognized the world over.
Somalia Independence Day is observed annually on June 26. During the 19th century, Britain established a protectorate over a large part of Somalia, and it became known as British Somaliland. In the 1920s, Italy took over the north-eastern sultanates of the country, forming Italian Somaliland.
May 17, 2022 · Independence Day in Somaliland is an annual celebration held on 18 May in Somaliland to mark the polity’s declaration of independence from the Somali Democratic Republic, [1] a unilateral proclamation which remains unrecognized the world over.
May 18, 2016 · 18 May 2016. Celebrations in Hargeisa marking the anniversary of independence. By Mary Harper. Africa editor, BBC World Service News. Exactly 25 years ago, after a ferocious civil war,...
Somaliland, officially the State of Somaliland, (Somali: Qaranka Soomaaliland, Arabic: دولة صوماليلاند, romanized: Dawlat Ṣūmālīlānd) was a short-lived independent country in the territory of the present-day unilaterally declared Republic of Somaliland, which regards itself as its legal successor.
Jan 2, 2024 · A breakaway, semi-desert territory on the coast of the Gulf of Aden, Somaliland declared independence after the overthrow of Somali military dictator Siad Barre in 1991. The move followed a...