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Article: President of self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland dies
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- May 3, 2002
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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 ...