
Somaliland, Africa’s Forgotten State
When people hear the word Somalia, they think pirates, warlords, and terrorism. These are, unfortunately, issues which have plagued the country for decades and lent it a bad reputation. It would be easy to imagine that an unrecognized breakaway state in the north of the country is also synonymous with all of these things and worse—but quite the opposite is true.Somaliland is a democratic country that broke away from Somalia in 1991 and has been relatively stable ever since. Yet, it has still not...