The opposition leader of the self-declared republic of Somaliland, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, has won the territory’s presidential election. More popularly known as Irro, he won with 64% of the ...

JOHNSTONE opened the session of the Royal Geographical Society on Monday evening with a paper on British Central Africa ... A survey of the Protectorate has been in progress for the last three ...

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, European powers divided the Horn of Africa into five distinct areas. The northern part of it was under the administration of Britain, forming a ...

Somalilandsun: The people of Somalia need to understand that Somaliland’s borders are as legitimate as the borders of any African country because they were all European-drawn borders.

Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi said the fire had destroyed goods worth millions of dollars. Responding to news of the disaster in the former British protectorate, UK Prime Minister Boris ...

In 1991, Somalia, a former British protectorate, claimed independence ... But Turkey’s game is to shore up its power in Somalia, not Somaliland, and its strategy is a broader one: to pre-insert ...

This has upset Somalia, which regards Somaliland as part of its territory - and it has said it views the deal as an act of aggression. The former British protectorate of Somaliland joined the rest ...

What is the status of Somaliland? Somaliland, a former British protectorate, declared itself independent from Somalia in 1991 and has all the trappings of a country, including a working political ...

which was not part of the former British Protectorate of Somaliland); the Ethiopian Ogaden and Haud territories (now part of Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State or Region 5); and Kenya’s Northern ...

Donald Trump is poised to recognise a former British protectorate as an official ... It comes after Somaliland recently successfully held free and fair elections which the opposition leader ...