Recognize Somaliland as a Sovereign Nation
In May 2001, the will of the people was supported in a referendum by more than 90 percent of the people, an event that I took part in.
By any metrics, for the last three decades, US, EU strategy to prop-up the nominal Somali government in Mogadishu dominated by one faction of Somalia’s civil war, is an abject failure.
Rather than imposing political outcomes on Somalia at the cost of both valuable American and African lives and resources. The United States and EU should leverage their diplomatic influence to facilitate a negotiated settlement between Somaliland and Somalia to end the legal fiction that the former is part of the latter.
The United States, EU, and Africa should take a bold step and recognize and support Somaliland—the former British territory that has established itself as a peaceful, democratic success story in the region.
