which had been under Italian rule. The merger faced challenges early on, with many in Somaliland rejecting the centralization of power in the country’s south. A rebel group, the Somali National ...

Somaliland has run its own affairs since unilaterally ... that stretches beyond their regional conflict to its time as an Italian and British colony and beyond. "We need to give them an identity ...

as well as the 19th-century conquests of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. In August 1940 the Duke of Aosta invaded neighbouring British Somaliland, whose long borders with Abyssinia and Italian ...