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Somaliland

a former region of E Africa, between the equator and the Gulf of Aden: includes Somalia, Djibouti, and SE Ethiopia
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DP World will set up a joint venture with 65 per cent control together with the government of Somaliland to manage and invest in the Port of Berbera.
Ali Sheikh Omar Qabil, director of the Family Health Department at the Ministry of Health, said that the El Nino-linked drought had affected more than 650,000 people in Somaliland, and was particularly bad in its western regions.
Keen to open up Berbera Port and surrounding roads to Ethiopian exports, a delegation of Ethiopian ministers visited Somaliland in November 2014 to arrange a trade and infrastructure agreement with its Government.
Only two women have ever risen to national ministerial posts in Somaliland, and Ms.
The central bank of Somaliland has said that the apex bank would intervene to support the currency.
Yet because of the violence that has plagued its southern neighbour for two decades, the story of Somaliland's relatively peaceful existence has largely been overlooked.
(27) This demarcation and the subsequent colonial administrations (28) contributed greatly to the major conflicts between Somaliland and Puntland.
The leaders of three main political parties in Birmingham have called for the Government to recognise Somaliland as an independent country.
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