Somalia Kidnaps: How the Country Is Splitting Into Self-Ruled Enclaves
25th October 2011
Gee, if you squint really hard, that looks a lot like ‘devolution’ and maybe even ‘self-determination’.
Somalia is one of those relics of European colonial rule. Africa as a whole would be better off if the colonial-era countries would break up into more natural subdivisions. The chief obstacle is the WaBenzi and their armies; they prefer to have a larger population from which to steal.
October 25th, 2011 at 16:47
The point about “Somaliland” is that it corresponds to what used to be called “British Somaliland”. The rest of it was mostly “Italian Somaliland”.
What really is disgusting, however, is that Somaliland is not “recognised” by the great and the good.