By Abdalgani A. Almi IntroductionSomaliland is a de facto independent state in the Horn of Africa. It gained itsindependence on 26 June 1960 from the United Kingdom of Great Britain andNorthern Ireland. Soon after its independence, it united with Italian Somalia. Someclaim the unification was backed by a sense of Pan–Somali nationalism amongSomalis inhabiting the Horn of Africa, which were to form a Somali state, consistingof Ogaden and Reserve Area, Italian Somaliland, British Somaliland, FrenchSomaliland and Northern Frontier District of Kenya (NFD).The idea of Pan–Somali nationalism long prospected to outdo the colonialdivision and unify Somalis under one state. However, British Somaliland and ItalianSomalia’s unification and formation of Somali Republic was troublesome to includeany of the other three (French Somaliland, Ogaden and Reserve Area, and NorthernFrontier District […]