- When you are in Somaliland, there is never any question that you are in a
real country. After all, the place has all the trappings of
countryhood. When I arrived at the airport, a customs officer in a
Somaliland uniform checked my Somaliland visa, issued by the Somaliland
consulate in Washington DC. At the airport, there was a Somaliland flag.
During my visit, I paid Somaliland shillings to drivers of cabs with
Somaliland plates who took me to the offices of ministers of the Somaliland government.
But, according to the US Department of State, the United Nations,
the African Union and every other government on Earth, I was not in
Somaliland, a poor but stable and mostly functional country on the Horn
of Africa. I was in Somalia.
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