Opinion - For decades, the international community has held fast to the aspiration of a unified Somalia. Yet that ...

Independence Week is celebrated annually from June 26 to July 1 to honor the 1960 union of British Somaliland and Italian Somalia. It paved the way for a united Somalia with hopes of progress and ...

The eastern region was once part of British Somaliland and so, they say, it is part of modern Somaliland too. That argument has never convinced the eastern clans, even though some of their leaders ...

Somaliland’s history as a distinct region of Somalia dates back to the late nineteenth century. The territory was a British protectorate until 1960 when it unified with the rest of present-day ...

He dreams of the day when Somalia (a U.N. trusteeship administered by Italy but slated for independence in 1960) and British Somaliland, a protectorate that is also moving toward independence ...

British Somaliland was a protectorate of Britain but on gaining independence it chose to join the bigger former Italian Somalia so that the two could become a stronger single country, a free country.