7 Facts about Somaliland

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In this brief video you can find seven little known facts about Somaliland.

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1. Somaliland is a self-declared state internationally recognised as an autonomous region of Somalia. The government of the de facto state of Somaliland regards itself as the successor state to the former British Somaliland protectorate.

2. In 1988, the Siad Barre regime launched a crackdown against the Hargeisa-based Somali National Movement (SNM) and other militant groups, which were among the events that led to the Somali Civil War. The conflict left the country's economic and military infrastructure severely damaged. Following the collapse of Barre's government in early 1991, local authorities, led by the SNM, unilaterally declared independence from Somalia on 18 May of the same year and reinstated the borders of the former short-lived independent State of Somaliland.

3. Freedom House ranks the Somaliland government as partly democratic. Somaliland transitioned to multi-party democracy. The elections are limited to three parties, in an attempt to create ideology based elections rather than clan based elections.

4. Hargeisa is a city situated in the Woqooyi Galbeed region of the self-declared but internationally unrecognised Republic of Somaliland in the Horn of Africa. It is the capital and largest city of Somaliland.

5. Various telecommunications firms also have branches in Somaliland. Telecommunications services such as GSM, fixed line, and Internet access, are available through an extensive network that covers all of Somaliland's major cities and more than 40 districts in both Somalia and Somaliland.

6. Between Somalia and Somaliland, only one country has border controls, a cohesive army, functioning security services, and a government enjoying some level of popular legitimacy—and it’s the one that isn’t legally recognized.

7. Ancient pyramidical structures, mausoleums, ruined cities and stone walls, such as the Wargaade Wall, are evidence of an old civilization that once thrived in the Somali peninsula. This civilization enjoyed a trading relationship with ancient Egypt and Mycenaean Greece since the second millennium BCE, supporting the hypothesis that Somalia or adjacent regions were the location of the ancient Land of Punt.

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