During the past decade, while the winds of change whipped through the rest of Africa, the only thing blowing in French Somaliland was sand. An arid enclave of 72,000 African tribesmen, 8,000 Arabs ...

Not to be outdone, six years later, the French seized a small territory across the Bab el-Mandab, one of the world’s greatest maritime strategic chokepoints adjacent to British Somaliland ...

Among colonies voting an overwhelming (75%) out for the constitution of Premier Charles de Gaulle was parched, sun-baked French Somaliland, an 8,000-square-mile East African land of dry gullies, ...

All but three Jews of the Jewish community in French Somaliland have emigrated to Israel, and there are no Jews left in Italian and British Somaliland, according to information received here by ...

Analysis - The camaraderie between a group of around 50 Somaliland soldiers, formed while fighting in the French army in the Second World War, sowed the seeds of what is today the country's ...

ME. AUBERT DE LA RUE has recently o travelled extensively in French Somaliland (November 1937-May 1938) for the purpose of conducting field work, which he has since examined critically (Bull.

Somaliland declared its independence more than 20 years ago and has been building a democracy ever since. ... A French archaeological team discovered the isolated Laas Geel caves in 2002.

In 1888, the British also established “British Somaliland,” a colony across the Red Sea and along the Somali coast on the Gulf of Aden. Not to be outdone, six years later, the French seized a ...