Somaliland is offering the U.S. use of a strategic Horn of Africa port in exchange for recognition of its statehood. In ...

Recognizing Somaliland is more than a moral imperative for the United States. It is also a strategic opportunity.

Somaliland's secession from Somalia has been a contentious issue since the collapse of Somalia's central government in late ...

Its history as a British protectorate, as a self-governing entity with recognized borders, and as distinct from Italian Somaliland extends back almost a century before that.

1960 - British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland become independent and merge to form the Somali Republic.

Inside Somaliland, the state eager to become the world’s next country As it chases recognition, an uprising in the east has challenged its authority ...

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 ...

Land patrols based on Kenya continued to raid small Italian outposts in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Italian Somaliland.

The would-be independent state stands in contrast to Somalia as a place of relative stability, and despite its lack of international recognition, Somaliland continues to push its own foreign policy.

Its history as a British protectorate, as a self-governing entity with recognized borders, and as distinct from Italian Somaliland extends back almost a century before that.