Questions tagged [somaliland]
Questions about the Republic of Somaliland, an unrecognized sovereign state internationally considered to be part of Somalia.
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Do any countries formally recognize the "Isaaq genocide" as a genocide?
I'm curious what level of international recognition does the Isaaq genocide have. (Those were events during the Somaliland War of Independence.) Wikipedia doesn't say whether it's explicitly ...
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How broad was the rejection of the Ethiopia-Somaliland deal in the Somaliland parliament?
AA has a piece (from Feb) that says that legislators in the Somaliland parliament rejected the deal with Ethiopia (roughly a naval base for recognition):
Lawmakers in Somalia's breakaway region of ...
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Why do some Somalilanders hold that Ethiopia is their primary enemy?
AP:
Somaliland’s defense minister has resigned to protest his government signing an agreement to allow landlocked Ethiopia to access Somaliland’s coastline.
“Ethiopia remains our number one enemy,” ...
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Do some countries officially limit the number of parties that can contest elections, to a number >1?
Wikipedia says that:
The constitution of Somaliland only allows for the top three political parties to contest elections, to avoid the previous proliferation of clan-based parties in the 1960s.
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Have other countries said what they'd do if Ethiopia recognizes Somaliland's indepedence?
Reuters:
Feb 23, 2024
Landlocked Ethiopia agreed a memorandum of understanding on Jan. 1 to lease 20 km (12 miles) of coastline in Somaliland - a territory that Somalia says it owns, even though the ...
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Why does the African Union defer to Somalia on the question of Somaliland's suzerainty?
There was an interesting Economist article I read on the question of why Somaliland, a functioning state in all but name, isn't recognized by more countries:
For longer than most of its people have ...
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Why is Somaliland not recognized by any country?
Somaliland is an unrecognized state in Northern Somalia. While Somalia is plagued with violence and terrorism, Somaliland has remained peaceful and separated from the war. Somaliland has its own ...
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Why does the international community recognise South Sudan independence, but not Somaliland?
Following a bloody civil war, South Sudan declared independence from Sudan after a referendum, an independence which is widely recognised but which was followed by another civil war.
Somalia has been ...
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