Article: President of self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland dies

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Dateline: JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, the president of the breakaway Republic of Somaliland, died Friday from complications in a medical procedure at a South African military hospital, Somaliland officials said. He was 73.

A statement from officials who accompanied Egal to One Military Hospital in Pretoria for treatment, said the death was due to a laceration during a colonoscopy, a procedure for examining the colon and rectum. He entered the hospital on April 23 for treatment for an undisclosed ailment.

It was not immediately possible to obtain comment from hospital officials.

Egal was active in the movement for independence of ...

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