In the intricate web of geopolitics, the recognition of sovereignty remains one of the most consequential acts the international community can undertake. Somaliland, a de facto ...

which had been under Italian rule. The merger faced challenges early on, with many in Somaliland rejecting the centralization of power in the country’s south. A rebel group, the Somali National ...

Somaliland’s strategic value in the Horn of Africa means the repercussions of such a decision would be far-reaching ...

as well as the 19th-century conquests of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. In August 1940 the Duke of Aosta invaded neighbouring British Somaliland, whose long borders with Abyssinia and Italian ...

I would hate to see the Red Sea bottled up on both ends by people who might not necessarily be or remain our friends.” This statement was made by President ...