- Somaliland: For
expats, Independence Day is an opportunity to celebrate the
self-declared country’s “peace and stability,” event organizer Abdullahi
Mohamed said as a growing crowd began to to fill the Portuguese
Cultural Centre in northeast Edmonton on Saturday night.
Although
the rest of the world does not recognize Somaliland’s autonomy, the
region nevertheless operates as a democracy, with its own elections,
currency and judicial system. Somaliland was previously colonized by the United Kingdom while the rest of Somalia was colonized by Italy.
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