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2017-05-31 Africa Horn

Somaliland Wants To Make One Thing Clear: It Is NOT Somalia

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Posted by Fred 2017-05-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 I'm glad we cleared that up.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-05-31 06:25|| 2017-05-31 06:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Duchy of Fenwick?

Posted by AlanC 2017-05-31 07:41|| 2017-05-31 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 They should rename themselves "Greenland".

Posted by Crusader 2017-05-31 11:35|| 2017-05-31 11:35|| Front Page Top

#4 No Apples Valley

Posted by Shipman 2017-05-31 13:59|| 2017-05-31 13:59|| Front Page Top

#5 The Northern and Southern Tribes have been at war since African independence in ~1954. The Southern half allowed over a million Northern people to starve shortly there after. Different religions and tribes. If you are really interested read the following book. After reading it I gained a great respect for Mandela.

The Fate of Africa; The History of the Continent Since Independence. Meridith, Martin

Posted by Grereck Ebbearong2120 2017-05-31 14:00|| 2017-05-31 14:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Can't imagine what could have possibly gone wrong to have led to such chaos and warring.

[sarc off]

"Yet, by one of those twists of fate that occurred so often during the Scramble for Africa in the nineteenth century, The Somali nation was carved up into five separate territories. The French occupied French Somaliland, a bleak enclave of lava-strewn desert surrounding the port of Djibouti at the southern entrance to the Red Sea which they wanted as a coaling station; the British acquired northern Somaliland, initially to ensure that the British garrison at Aden was kept regularly supplied with meat; the Italians established themselves in the Italian colony of Somalia, with a capital at Mogadishu. Further south, Somali communities were incorporated within the boundsaries of the British colony of Kenya; and to the west, on the Ogaden plateau, after Emperor Menelik extended the borders of the empire in the late nineteenth century, they came under Ethiopian jursisdiction."

Martin, Maradeth, The Fate of Africa pages, 464-465

Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-31 14:27|| 2017-05-31 14:27|| Front Page Top

#7 After reading it I gained a great respect for Mandela.

I think I'll pass.

Posted by Ulomosh Hupolung1517 2017-05-31 15:48|| 2017-05-31 15:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Disney is NOT Disneyland, but an entertaining fantasy all the same.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-31 16:11|| 2017-05-31 16:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Somalia is a country in Africa. Somaliland is a suburb of Minneapolis.

Posted by Creling Pelosi3622 2017-05-31 20:14|| 2017-05-31 20:14|| Front Page Top

#10 avoid "Chicago". The term conjures up an image of violence-wracked streets

Posted by Frank G 2017-05-31 20:18|| 2017-05-31 20:18|| Front Page Top

#11 The name "Detroit" may be available soon. Again, as with "Chicago", there are certain... associations. But come on, you're being mistaken for Somalia, fer cripes sake!

Posted by SteveS 2017-05-31 21:24|| 2017-05-31 21:24|| Front Page Top

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