Puntland Defense Forces posed next to a sign in Arabic that proclaimed the mountain town of Sheebaab as a “province” of the ...

European colonialism in the Horn of Africa region has divided the historic land of Somali people into various territories like current Djibouti, Somalia, as well as some Somali inhibited regions that ...

Throughout history, Ethiopia’s national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and access to the sea have been fiercely protected through the ...

Somalilandsun: Somaliland is a breakaway state in Somalia that has spent the past few decades fighting and pushing for independence from the unstable turbulence in Somalia. Somaliland’s people ...

A transitional parliament for Somalia -- the first since the Horn of Africa country dissolved into chaos in 1991 -- was formally inaugurated in the neighboring state of Djibouti on Sunday. Djibouti's ...

Location: Cape Matapan, off the southern coast of Greece. Players: British and Italian navies, Admiral AB Cunningham, Vice Admiral Pridham-Wippwell. Outcome: The Italian navy was defeated and did ...

When British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland united in 1960, the union was not formalized through a legally binding treaty. Somaliland's withdrawal from the union in 1991 can thus be seen as a ...

Eritrea was an Italian colony until 1951 ... After Ethiopia signed a port deal with autonomous, coastal Somaliland, Somalia, which sees Somaliland as one of its regions, cut off diplomatic ties with ...

When British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland united in 1960, the union was not formalized through a legally binding treaty. Somaliland's withdrawal from the union in 1991 can thus be seen as a ...