Cabdiraxmaan

[Cabdiraxmaan @abuRayaaaan]

Somaliland - a paradise for archaeologists.
DNA technology will reveal secrets in the human home of origin (Swedish)
https://t.co/mHm6oNeOCa

[bhlub @thebhlub]

🚨 Turkey is aggressively attacking Somaliland at the UN.

At a routine Human Rights Council session, Turkey went out of its way to attack Somaliland's sovereignty, relations with Israel, and boast about arming Somalia's army.

Turkey is now:

1. Aggressively attacking Somaliland at international organisations.

2. Arming and militarising Somalia.

3. Supporting terror militia within Somaliland’s borders.

How can Somaliland assert its statehood while hosting foreign entities that actively campaign against its existence?

What are we waiting for?

Where is the red line before Turkey is told to pack up?

[REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND @RepOfSomaliland]

African countries that became independent AFTER Somaliland:

The State of Somaliland — 26 June 1960

🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo — 30 June 1960
🇸🇴 Somalia — 1 July 1960
🇧🇯 Benin — 1 August 1960
🇳🇪 Niger — 3 August 1960
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso — 5 August 1960
🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire — 7 August 1960
🇹🇩 Chad — 11 August 1960
🇨🇫 Central African Republic — 13 August 1960
🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo — 15 August 1960
🇬🇦 Gabon — 17 August 1960
🇸🇳 Senegal — 20 August 1960
🇲🇱 Mali — 22 September 1960
🇳🇬 Nigeria — 1 October 1960
🇲🇷 Mauritania — 28 November 1960
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone — 27 April 1961
🇹🇿 Tanzania — 9 December 1961
🇷🇼 Rwanda — 1 July 1962
🇧🇮 Burundi — 1 July 1962
🇩🇿 Algeria — 5 July 1962
🇺🇬 Uganda — 9 October 1962
🇰🇪 Kenya — 12 December 1963
🇲🇼 Malawi — 6 July 1964
🇿🇲 Zambia — 24 October 1964
🇬🇲 The Gambia — 18 February 1965
🇧🇼 Botswana — 30 September 1966
🇱🇸 Lesotho — 4 October 1966
🇲🇺 Mauritius — 12 March 1968
🇸🇿 Eswatini — 6 September 1968
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea — 12 October 1968
🇲🇿 Mozambique — 25 June 1975
🇨🇻 Cape Verde — 5 July 1975
🇰🇲 Comoros — 6 July 1975
🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe — 12 July 1975
🇦🇴 Angola — 11 November 1975
🇸🇨 Seychelles — 29 June 1976
🇩🇯 Djibouti — 27 June 1977
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe — 18 April 1980
🇳🇦 Namibia — 21 March 1990
🇪🇷 Eritrea — 24 May 1993
🇸🇸 South Sudan — 9 July 2011

Somaliland is older than 40 of today’s African states.

[Jaco Kleynhans @JacoKleynhans]

If Kosovo and South Sudan could be recognized as independent states over the last 18 years, Somaliland should also be recognized as a sovereign country.
British Somaliland became independent on 26 June 1960 as the State of Somaliland and was recognized by some 35 countries, including the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Five days later, it voluntarily entered into a union with the former Italian Trust Territory of Somalia. The legal instruments of that union were flawed: the two sides signed different texts, and the official Act of Union was adopted retroactively by the new National Assembly in 1961.
A fact-finding mission of the African Union concluded in 2005 that the union "was never ratified and also malfunctioned when it came into operation from 1960 to 1990", making Somaliland's case "historically unique and self-justified in the political history of Africa". Somaliland thus claims the exact colonial borders of the former British Protectorate - the same uti possidetis juris principle that the AU itself considers fundamental. Failed unions have been dissolved before (United Arab Republic, Mali Federation, Senegambia).
According to the 1933 Montevideo Convention (widely considered customary international law), a state requires a permanent population, a defined territory, an effective government and the capacity to conduct foreign relations. Somaliland has complied in practice on all three of these requirements since 1991. Time for recogniti.on of Somaliland!

[James O'Keefe @RepKeefe]

Watching @AliOmarMP call Somaliland "never a country" is absurd. On June 26, 1960, Somaliland broke colonial chains with the British, the same way every African country was born. If that process makes a country everywhere else on the continent, it makes one in Somaliland too.

[𝓢𝓾𝓪𝓭 ✿.• صوماليلاند @Suaadomer1]

@Lion_Roar_1 @Abdulrahma23452 Somaliland first, Somaliland only, Our nation, Our interests, Our future.

I will ignore the whole world and Everything else comes second 🤫

[easttowestt 🌍 @westtoeastt]

A “Somali Republic” never existed. The former Italian Administration of Somalia (Amministrazione della Somalia Italiana) became the Republic of Somalia upon independence.

There was never any entity officially called the “Somali Republic.” That name was a domestic political fiction; all legal and international documents consistently referred to the Republic of Somalia hence why the current manifestation is the federal republic of Somalia.

When new states are created, they normally adopt a new or distinct name. In Somalia’s case, however, no entirely new state was formed. What occurred was the annexation and illegal absorption of Somaliland into the existing Republic of Somalia.

[Dr. Fundji Benedict-VL🎓🇮🇱🇿🇦🇧🇷🇪🇹 @Fundji3]

#Somaliland

To all my friends from Somaliland.

As a daughter of the Horn, deeply involved in helping Somaliland to gain recognition internationally, I want to congratulate H.E. President @Abdirahmanirro, the Gov’t & people of #Somaliland on the 66th anniversary of independence from the #UK🇬🇧 .
Your history, resilience,sacrifices& achievements are all but a model for the region!

You’ve already become an important friend and ally to Israel. And that matters more that you can ever imagine.

💙💙

[easttowestt 🌍 @westtoeastt]

@grok
This is the official Republic of Somalia Decreto Legge 30 agosto 1960, n. 4.

Does this document recognize 26 June as Somaliland’s Independence Day as a public holiday? Quote the exact relevant part from Article 2.

Is it true On the day this document on official holidays was written there was no de jure union as no bilateral documents were signed. Five months later a unilateral retroactive law was passed in Mogadishu which in international law had no legal effect over all the claimed territory ie Somaliland.

[bhlub @thebhlub]

What if I told you that Somaliland and Israel had relations over 3000 years ago?

As Somaliland opens its new embassy in Jerusalem, the world thinks this is a modern geopolitical alliance.

It isn’t.

It's a revival 🧵👇

[Grok @grok]

By June 26 1960 when the State of Somaliland gained independence & recognition ~14 of today's 54 African countries had independence (10 pre-1960: Liberia South Africa Egypt Ethiopia Libya Sudan Morocco Tunisia Ghana Guinea + Cameroon Togo Mali Federation Madagascar in 1960).

~40 countries (74%) had not yet received independence. Most gained it later in 1960 or after.

[הכנסת - The Knesset @KnessetIL]

"תודה בשם כל 6.5 מיליון אזרחי סומלילנד״ | ביקור נשיא סומלילנד בכנסת

נשיא סומלילנד @Abdirahmanirro התארח בטקס קבלת פנים רשמי בכנסת. יחד איתו הגיעו לכנסת שרי החוץ, ההגנה, האנרגיה והמים של ממשלת סומלילנד.

יו״ר הכנסת @AmirOhana : "זהו יום מרגש ומיוחד עבורנו: הביקור המדיני הראשון בהיסטוריה של נשיא סומלילנד - מתקיים בישראל ובכנסת. ברוכים תהיו. פתיחת שגרירות סומלילנד בירושלים אתמול היא צעד חשוב ומשמעותי.״

בספר האורחים של הכנסת כתב נשיא סומלילנד: "זהו רגע היסטורי עבורי. תודתי והערכתי העמוקה נתונה לכם, בשם כל 6.5 מיליון אזרחי סומלילנד.״

[queen landers 🇩🇪🇮🇱 @MHudisha27306]

Wherever we are we value our flag and our nation🫡❤️

[easttowestt 🌍 @westtoeastt]

The “Act of Union” was a joke not worth the paper it was written on.

It wasn’t a treaty between two countries. It was Somalia’s domestic Law No. 5, rammed through in January 1961 a full six months after the so-called union on 1 July 1960.

They literally tried to pass a law retroactively to legalize something that never properly happened. 😂

Basic law 101: you can’t magic a union into existence by backdating a domestic bill.

No joint treaty. No mutual ratification. Just unilateral Somalian paperwork pretending to be legal.

This wasn’t union. It was legal fiction.

This is an open and shut case for the experts at @mccuejury

[Fahmi Saeed @saeed_fahm13126]

النوايا الصادقة تترك اثر يستمر طويلا، والوفاء واجب للشقيق وأهل العطاء.

إطلاق علم الإمارات و جملة " وشكرا للإمارات " على شاشات المتحف الوطني في هارجيسا، امتنان من الرئاسة للمؤثرين الزائرين من دولة الإمارات 🇦🇪❤️

[easttowestt 🌍 @westtoeastt]

@i24NEWS_EN @Maydhalaalis @Nicole_Zedeck The orchestra playing the national anthem of the Republic of Somaliland

Beautiful 🥹

[REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND @RepOfSomaliland]

Happy May 18th!
Restoration of Sovereignty Day!

[Y A H Y E @YahyeRSL]

Happy restoration of sovereignty day.

May this day remind us of the sacrifices made to reach where we are, and may we never lose sight of our goal.

18May
Somaliland

[easttowestt 🌍 @westtoeastt]

After 66 years, the Republic of Somaliland rises once more to the mountaintop.

From the jubilant streets of Hargeisa on that historic Sunday, June 26, 1960 when bonfires lit the hills, fireworks lit the sky, and crowds danced to mark the end of 73 years of British rule to this very moment, the spirit of Somaliland has never been broken.

It has been a rugged six-decade journey. Thirty-one years of oppression and suffering under Somalia culminated in the triumphant reclamation of sovereignty on May 18, 1991. For 35 long years that followed, while the world looked away, Somaliland stood alone — unrecognized, yet unbowed.

Lectured by the European Union and the United Nations to surrender their dream, even as billions poured into instability elsewhere, the people of Somaliland chose a different path: quiet determination, relentless rebuilding, and unshakable faith in their own destiny.

Today, the Republic of Somaliland stands as the most peaceful, stable, and democratic beacon in the Horn of Africa. It is a living testament to three decades of self-reliance, rule of law, and a visionary populace.

Tomorrow, May 18, marks the crowning achievement of generations of Somalilanders who refused to be forgotten. The isolation ends.

This is not merely re-recognition. This is restoration. This is justice. This is the fulfillment of a sacred promise kept alive through fire and faith.

[Nimco Ali (OBE) @NimkoAli]

Home 🖤

[Abdi Daud @haadka]

New: The Somaliland Statehood Test

Try it now:

https://t.co/v8aJplKPE0

5 specific questions:

1️⃣ Sovereign before joining a union?
2️⃣ Was the union legally flawed/unratified?
3️⃣ Did the union practically fail/collapse?
4️⃣ 30+ years of independent stability?
5️⃣ Meets the Montevideo Convention criteria?

We tested these movements to see who actually matches:
🇪🇸 Catalonia
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland
🇹🇼 Taiwan
🇨🇦 Quebec
🇽🇰 Kosovo
🇮🇶 Kurdistan
🇳🇬 Biafra
🇸🇸 South Sudan
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇾🇪 South Yemen
🇪🇭 W. Sahara
🇵🇸 Palestine
🇨🇲 S. Cameroons
🇸🇾 Druze
🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 Baltic States