Word: somaliland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that is what Kagame wants, it might provide an end to the ethnic rivalries that have haunted central Africa for decades. On the other hand, it might be the opening move to redraw the Congo's borders. If that happens, no one can predict where the unraveling will stop. Somaliland has split from Somalia, Eritrea has left Ethiopia, Anjouan has declared its independence from the Comoros. The Africa carved up by Europeans in the 19th century may be completely unrecognizable in the 21st...
...that is what Kagame wants, it might provide an end to the ethnic rivalries that have haunted central Africa for decades. On the other hand, it might be the opening move to redraw the Congo's borders. If that happens, no one can predict where the unraveling will stop. Somaliland has split from Somalia, Eritrea has left Ethiopia, Anjouan has declared its independence from the Comoros. The Africa carved up by Europeans in the 19th century may be completely unrecognizable in the 21st...
When U.S. forces complete their withdrawal from Somalia on March 31, the nation may split in two. MOHAMMED IBRAHIM EGAL, President of Somaliland, was in Nairobi in recent weeks trying to win support for the notion that the region he rules in the north -- which no state recognizes as a country -- should remain independent and not be reincorporated into Somalia...
...Abagal subclan of interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed. The Habar Gedir subclan of General Mohammed Farrah Aidid dominates the southern three-fourths. At the beginning of last year, hatred of Siad Barre united the groups, but that unity is long gone. Another clan has declared an independent Somaliland in the north; yet another controls the land south and west of Mogadishu. Meanwhile, Siad Barre waits with hundreds of well-armed fighters only 125 miles away from the capital...