Global community should now give rising Somaliland a leg-up

Protestors outside Downing Street, London, calling on the British government to recognize the Republic of Somaliland, 2017. [Courtesy]

For 30 years now, Somaliland has been pushing for international recognition after it disengaged from the unity with Somalia when the war broke out in 1991. It has been 30 years of toiling by the Somaliland people to pick up and rebuild their country from the rubbles occasioned by the war.