🇸🇴 #Somaliland has been trying to win international recognition ever since it declared its #independence from #Somalia in 1991. It's a long hope that its #diplomatic credentials might distinguish it from the nation it's still technically part of. Our correspondent tells us more in Eye on Africa - France 24 ➡️ https://f24.my/9P4x.f | FRANCE 24 English

Voters in Somaliland flocked to the polls to choose a president at a time when the breakaway Somali region sees international recognition within reach after three decades of de facto self-rule | Reuters

Somaliland has been fighting for international recognition for more than three decades.After gaining independence from Britain in June 1960, Somaliland voluntarily united with the former Italian Somalia to form the Somali Republic. But the union didn’t last. Following years of political marginalization and brutal repression — including massacres under Siad Barre’s regime in the late 1980s — Somaliland declared independence on May 18, 1991.Since then, Somaliland has functioned as a de facto indep