The similar names are rooted in colonial history: Somaliland became known as British Somaliland in the 19th century, while the southern region was Italian Somaliland. "We have a functioning democracy.

Less than 30 years ago, Aden Abdullah Osman was a houseboy for a minor Italian official in Italian Somaliland, a barren land on Africa's bulging eastern coast. Last week Aden Abdullah, now ...

In August 1940, Italian fascist forces invaded British Somaliland and overwhelmed the small British garrison there. Still, the Italians held the territory for less than a year before the British ...

When it won independence from the U.K., Somaliland merged with the former Italian colony, Italian Somaliland, to form the Somali Republic. Africa Somaliland: A Pocket Of Stability In A Chaotic Region.

Somaliland held its seventh elections in 30 years yesterday. ... It voluntarily entered a union with Italian Somaliland to form what would become Somalia. It was an unhappy union.

As navies go, the one known as His Majesty's Kenya Ships is distinctly down-at-the-poop. It consists of a school of schooners, motorboats, whaleboats and dhows, manned for the most part by ...

Then, a week later, Somaliland voluntarily entered a union with what was at the time known as Italian Somaliland, to the south, creating, present day Somalia. That Union backfired.

When people think of Somalia, they think of Mark Bowden’s Black Hawk Down. They think of South Park’s “Somalian Pirates We” episode. They even think of (sigh) Pirates of the Caribbean.

Somaliland's Foreign Minister Saad Ali Shire is clearly frustrated. Somaliland is being hit by a regional food crisis that the U.N. has described as one of the largest humanitarian emergencies ...