Vol 48 No 21 | SOMALIASOMALILANDPUNTLAND How many states for the north? 19th October 2007 Tension between Somaliland (created in 1991) and the much less firmly established Puntland (created 1998) has been running high. On 1 July, yet another state, Maakhir, was inaugura...
Vol 44 No 10 | SOMALILAND Count and discount 16th May 2003 Mediation continues in a bid to calm the controversy following the 14 April presidential election. This saw Dahir Riyal Kahin, one of the late dictator Mohamed Siad Barre's politic...
Vol 37 No 4 | SOMALILAND Shrinking horizons 16th February 1996 President Egal hasn't yet managed to provide the constitution he and his country need Breakaway Somaliland, five years old and still unrecognised by the outside world, has acquired a national anthem. In a rare display of unity, President Mohamed Ibrahim Egal’s...