A self-governing breakaway region of Somalia known as Somaliland is not recognized as an independent country by any foreign ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...