Somalilandsun: Somaliland is a successful democracy that has reasserted its independence, and is pursuing peace and security, says Alun Michael in his letter in the Guardian titled Britain must ...

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 ...

Before it ended, Hafsa began to cry. Somaliland’s current borders are based on an 1800s colonial division, which separated a British protectorate from Italian Somaliland. In 1960 the former ...

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 ...

All five members of the United Nations Security Council recognized Somaliland in 1960. Its history as a British protectorate, as a self-governing entity with recognized borders, and as distinct ...

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.

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 ...