Word: somaliland
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...takes on only clients who are committed to democracy, nonviolence and human rights--and those nobody else seems willing to help. They include the Polisario Front, the government in exile of Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara, which ID is helping in its struggle for independence. Then there's Somaliland, which has been independent since 1991 and is taking advice from ID on how to gain international recognition. "You should be engaging with all groups," says Ross, "not just governments sitting in offices and embassies." After a career spent deciding the fates of people who weren't even in the room, Ross...
...world." Without those peacekeepers, however, the two sides seem destined to clash. A face-off would surely drag Ethiopia and Eritrea into a proxy--if not outright--war. The Islamists' stated aim to unite all of Somalia is believed to include the secular breakaway territories of Puntland and Somaliland, as well as portions of Kenya and Ethiopia. Once fighting has begun, there's little to prevent Somalia from becoming a conflict that could engulf the Horn of Africa, cause horrific loss of life and create the continent's next major humanitarian crisis...
...SOMALILAND, the most stable part of the Horn of Africa, declared independence from war-racked Somalia in 1991. After 15 years of relatively good government, it's getting some international recognition. Ethiopia just opened an embassy there...
...memory of Adowa poisoned relations between the two countries. Finally, a bloody border incident in 1934 on the frontier between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland provided the incendiary device. Ethiopia protested to the League of Nations, an act, suggests Mockler, that goaded the vainglorious Duce into war. On Oct. 3, 1935, 100,000 Italian troops began their invasion...
...country?s unrecognized status was the 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...