Explainer: Is Somaliland a republic?

Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi is in Kenya for a three-day state visit, and there is much controversy around the question of whether Somaliland- an autonomous region in northern Somalia- that has been seeking statehood for close to three decades is a self-declared republic.

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