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Article: Somaliland.(Country Profile)
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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THE death of President Mohamed Ibrahim Egal in May 2002 put back in jeopardy the autonomous but unrecognized state of Somaliland. His government had survived pariah status for nine years, in spite of inheriting a war-devastated infrastructure, popular disruption, extreme lack of resources, and the clan rivalries which persistently threaten any political union in the Horn of Africa. Without Egal, would Somaliland collapse?
The self-declared republic came into being in 1993, within the boundaries of the pre-1960 British protectorate. Somalia itself fell apart at the seams in 1991 after a spate of clan-based rebellions against the genocidal dictatorship of President ...