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...HARGEISA, Somalia - I've been more frightened before. And laughed harder. But never have I experienced the same intense combination of fear and amusement that I did during a recent visit with Somaliland's minister of information. You probably haven't heard of Somaliland - it's a would-be country in the north-western bit of Somalia, a nation state that ceased to function as such a decade ago. But while the south has been torn apart by incessant violence ever since and is only now attempting to move beyond government by the ubiquitous warlords, Somaliland has forged a more...
...primary concern of Ali Warande, Somaliland's minister of information, on a recent afternoon. "Recognize us," he urged. "Look how well we are doing compared to the rest of Somalia." I was interviewing Warande, along with a BBC TV journalist, in the sitting room of his modest house in Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway republic. After a brief discussion, we asked him if we could see his pets, which include four cheetahs and a lion. Sure, said the minister, "I'll show you how I play with them." Outside he let the lion off the leash and began wrestling with...
Somalia has paid a heavy price for its support of the rebels. Although it no longer sends its army into the Ogaden to fight alongside the W.S.L.F., Somalia allows the guerrillas to train at a camp near Hargeisa, permits occasional arms shipments from friendly Arab countries to be delivered at its ports, and cares for the liberation front's wounded in government hospitals. It has also provided refuge for some 540,000 displaced Ogadenians, who may become permanent wards of Somalia if the fighting does not stop. "Because of the sheer numbers involved, the only place for these people...
...Ethiopians are fighting a civil war against three liberation fronts. The Russian flotilla is presumably there to protect a Soviet sea lift to the Ethiopian-held port of Assab. Meanwhile, the Ethiopian air force, probably assisted by Cuban pilots, has been conducting bombing raids on the Somali city of Hargeisa and the port of Berbera, where the Soviets had a missile and naval base until the Somalis ousted them last year. The offensive began last week when Ethiopian armored columns, spearheaded by Soviet T-54 tanks, poured from the strongholds of Harar and Dire Dawa. Air cover was provided...
...Somali election was exceptional in one other respect: it was held in the midst of a continuing shooting war, the border conflict with Ethiopia. Last week Ethiopian fighter-bombers pulled a surprise daylight raid on the Somali town of Hargeisa-less than 17 hours before the agreed start of an armistice between the two nations. The Somalis, who like fighting as much as voting, were not too perturbed. As Prime Minister Shermarke observed: "We can teach Ethiopia that democracy can be practiced while people defend their soil...