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Somalia has had its share of problems ~ two decades of anarchy that ended only in 2012, famine, pirates, al-Shabab (http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2013/07/surviving-in-somalia.html, http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2014/09/and-now-al-shabab.html), the last of which has struck again, attacking a popular hotel in the capital city of Mogadishu and killing 15. Is it any wonder, then, that even as Somalia has tried to claim parts of neighboring Ethiopia, Kenya, and Djibouti, there is an area of the country that has claimed its own independence? Somaliland has its own currency, bureaucracy, army, and police force. It is comparatively peaceful. Its government signs legal contracts and participates in diplomatic processes with other countries and international organizations. Still, it has yet to be officially recognized by the rest of the world as an independent state: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains
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