SOMALILAND: The African Country that doesn’t really exist!
Do you know Somaliland? If not, rest assured, you are not the only one! This video will explain to you why Somaliland is a country which is not recognized today and which does not officially exist, despite the fact that it has its own entry visa, its government, its own currency, its modern shops, and even its own police and army.
Somaliland is a territory of the Horn of Africa, as large as England of 137,600 km with 3.5 million inhabitants. But it is not on any map and has no official existence today. It is located between Somalia and Djibouti. Hargeisa, the capital and largest city of Somaliland, has a population of one million. Completely razed by civil war about 20 years ago, it was rebuilt without any international aid. Somaliland has three borders, if we consider it a true independent country: Somalia to the east, Ethiopia to the south, and Djibouti to the northwest. The language spoken in the country is Somali. Somaliland was part of Somalia from July 1960 to May 18, 1991, when the self-proclamation of its independence was not recognized, as was its constitution adopted on April 30, 2000 by the international community.
Politically, Somaliland establishes its laws on the basis of Islamic, democratic and ancestral demands. Courts in Somaliland operate under Sharia, Islamic law. In the country, all the elections that have taken place so far have been considered democratic. Economically, Somaliland has rebuilt without any international aid its capital, which was totally destroyed in 1988. The Somaliland parliament functions according to traditional and democratic requirements.
Somaliland has a visible border which is hard to miss. The country also has police officers who check every person in the territory and impose a tax on goods. Every day dozens of trucks cross this country and take a deserted and dangerous road riddled with mines to trade to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Many truckers die on this road. There is no insurance in Somaliland, so no one
