"After several months of living in
Somaliland’s would-be capital city of Hargeisa, a friend from China
messaged me asking if I was okay. The news that morning had been full of
footage from Mogadishu. Hundreds of people had died in one of the
country’s worst terrorist attacks."
- Somaliland, however, is a little different. It was in fact at one point
an independent nation… For the grand total of five days between its
independence from Britain and its union with Somalia. Unlike other
aspiring nations, the country it is technically part of has no official
presence there. Somaliland functions as an independent country complete
with its own government, currency and military, even though it has
remained unrecognised by the international community for over twenty
years.
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