- DP World's $442 million expansion of Berbera port in Somaliland will
put the breakaway state on the path to formal independence from Somalia,
its president has said. The Horn of Africa state declared independence in 1991, when Somali
president Mohamed Siad Barre fell and Somalia erupted into chaos. But in
the intervening years, its campaign for international recognition has
fallen on deaf ears. Today, Somaliland has many of the attributes of a sovereign state,
including its own military and police forces, a functioning government
and institutions and its own currency, the Somaliland shilling.Yet Somalia still claims ownership over the territory, although its
tangible influence there is minimal.
“Somalia cannot interfere in our
affairs,” Somaliland President Muse Behi Abdi told The National. “Mogadishu has no control over our country.”
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