Somalia: Afghanistan redux?
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World War 4 Report, NY -
9 Jun 2006
... on paper but no effective government on the
ground, while Somaliland has a real government with territorial
control but no international recognition. ...
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Mail & Guardian Online |
The 54th state?
Mail & Guardian Online, South
Africa - 19 May 2006
... And there is plenty of precedent for that
in Africa. It is Somaliland’s relative success that is
winning its quest for recognition. |
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Somaliland: AU Urged to Prevent Somalia-Somaliland War |
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Somalia in pursuit of the irredentist dream of Greater
Somalia - including parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti -
Somaliland now seeks recognition within the ...
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The Signs Say Somaliland, but the World Says
Somalia |
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in favor of independence, and Somaliland has
essentially ruled itself, given the lack of a central government in
Somalia. But getting recognition from the rest ...
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UNPO on
Somaliland: Restart from Somaliland |
To reconsider international recognition of
Somaliland and to acknowledge and further help build on its
achievements could represent an important alternative ...
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Painful
push for recognition |
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SOMALILAND/Dianna
Games
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OLD MIG fighter plane is mounted on a plinth in the centre of
Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway Somaliland republic. It is a
stark reminder of the civil war fought more than a dec- ade ago in
which about 50000 died.
The city itself was flattened by repeated bombing sorties by
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| Beyond
wisdom
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Painful
push for recognition (October 30), on Somaliland's
struggle for recognition, was the clearest, most
readable explanation of that territory's troubled
history I've seen to date.
Dianna Games's contributions on Africa are a credit to
your publication as they always go beyond conventional
wisdom and political correctness to offer readers a
fresh look at some of the most intractable problems
facing our continent.
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| Somaliland
Recognition
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Rupert Cook
reports deeply in the issue of recognition from
Somaliland.
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| AU
can take a leaf from China's book
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case of Somaliland, the AU could offer it provisional
recognition as a transitional special administrative
region. This could be linked to it opening a dialogue
with a new Mogadishu transitional government that,
hopefully, will emerge out of talks in Kenya.
Continued AU and international recognition of a
Mogadishu regime could, in turn, be conditional on it
entering into good-faith talks with Somaliland and
Djibouti on issues of pan-Somali reintegration.
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| Somaliland
recognition finds enhanced support-
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internationally renowned Brussels-based think-tank
International Crisis Group (ICG) in a new report
favours an international recognition of the
self-declared republic Somaliland.Historic claims,
twelve years of stability and a remarkable
democratisation should favour Somaliland's bid for
recognition.
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| Somaliland
has case for independence Jean-Jacques
Cornish-
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is growing for the country to do this on one of the
prickliest matters: Somaliland.The former British
colony is seeking recognition as an entity free from
its paralysed southern neighbour, Somalia
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| Somaliland:
Democratisation and Its Discontents
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International Crisis Group report shows greater
approval for Somaliland's claims to independence.Recent
developments have made the choice faced by the
international community considerably clearer: develop
pragmatic responses to Somaliland’s demand for
self-determination or continue to insist upon the
increasingly abstract notion of the unity and
territorial integrity of the Somali Republic – a
course of action almost certain to open a new chapter
in the Somali civil war.
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A SUCCESS STORY, SOMALILAND IS AFRICA'S BEST-KEPT
SECRET by
Iqbal Jhazbhay
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African players are taking a new look at Somaliland,
that state on the strategic Horn of Africa that
continues to pay the political and economic price for
declaring independence twice (1960 and 1991).
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| Peaceful
Somaliland yearns for recognition
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| HARGEISA
(Somaliland): Cup Final Day in the breakaway republic
of Somaliland, and an old man stands up to lead the
crowd in a chant. "For the fact that Somaliland
has peace - thanks be to God. For the fact of this
football tournament - thanks be to God."
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