“A
place that has made something out of virtually nothing” is how former
Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo describes the progress made by
Somaliland.
His
trip there this month was the first by an African president, current or
past, since the territory re-declared its independence in 1991. In June
1960, Somaliland gained its independence from its colonial master
Britain before making an ill-fated decision to join former Italian
Somaliland five days later in a union that was envisaged ultimately to
include French Somalia (now Djibouti), the Somali-dominated Ogaden
region of Ethiopia (now Region 5) and a chunk of northern Kenya.
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