Time To Recognise Somaliland
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While the attention of the World continues to focus on North Africa and the Middle East, other conflict stricken countries fall ever further down the news agenda. In the case of Somalia - essentially a failed state - conflict and war has assailed people there since the early 1990s. Attempts to intervene by the United States famously failed, and a more recent intervention by Uganda has had limited success. Somalia is a breeding ground for terrorism and priracy - and yet...The Northern part of Somaliland, encompassing the colonial boundaries of the former British Somaliland is a functioning, free and fair democracy. Bizarrely it remains unrecognised by any other country. Is that because it offends African Union opinion, in that effectively it is a breakaway state?
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2 comments:
Hi. do you know of any organic farms in any part of AFrica, but run by Africans?
This is the hight of hypocrisy, If you watch the western media they call the African leaders dictators all day long and yet they tell us that the faith of the free and Democratic people of Somaliland depends on these dictators. We know why the Arab leaders are against Somaliland, what I can't figure out yet is why the west is following the OAU and the Arab league on this issue?
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