Congratulations to H.E. President @Abdirahmanirro, the Gov’t & people of #Somaliland on the 66th anniversary of independence from the #UK🇬🇧 whilst #Somalia#Italiana🇮🇹 was still a #UN🇺🇳 trust. Be proud of your history, resilience, democracy & achievements: a model for the region!
📍 A rare interview with a British officer who served with the Somaliland Camel Corps in the 1920s…
He described his journey and the people of Somaliland:
"They have big characters. Very intelligent people. They were basically a democracy, people of Somaliland liked to express their views."
100 years ago..
#History
No❗️
There was Never a State Created under the Name (SOMALI REPUBLIC)⚠️
The Member State Admitted to the United Nations on 20 September 1960 was (REPUBLIC OF SOMALIA),
not SOMALI REPUBLIC.
@ProfHusseinWar
I am hearing that representatives of the Arab League are meeting in #Jordan to discuss, among other things, #Somalia’s sovereignty. That discussion may also create a small opening for Somalia’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Ali Omar, to quietly move onward to #Israel, since he holds an #American passport, to see whether the Israelis are willing to discuss #Somaliland. What I want to highlight here is that the same state that asks the Arab League to defend its sovereignty is the state that had already written Somaliland off long before it even decided to call it a day. So before anyone lectures us about unity, let us first ask what kind of union is being defended, and who was ever included in it.
Now, at the @UN Security Council, Somalia is represented by Abukar Dahir Osman, a Hawadle Hawiye. At @IGADsecretariat, the Deputy Executive Secretary is Mohamed Abdi Ware, also a Hawadle Hawiye. In the @arableague_gs, its representative is Ali Abdi Awaare, a Majeerteen Darood. Its representative to the @_AfricanUnion is Abdullahi Mohamed Warfaa, an Ogaden Darood. The Somali judicial seat at the @EACJCourt went to Abdiwahid Warsame Abdullahi, a Marexaan Darood. Its bargain for roles at the @_AfricanUnion yielded an envoy position that went to former Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas, a Majeerteen Darood.
To be clear, these men are all individually qualified, and I hold them in high regard. That is beside the point. The point is: a state that cannot share a seat at the table cannot credibly preach unity. Not one of these significant regional/diplomatic posts is held by someone from Somaliland. This is a system that did not, does not, and would not trust us, and it is therefore a system no one from Somaliland should be asked to trust. In parts of the Arab political world, it may be acceptable for a son, a daughter, an uncle, and a father to sit around one table and claim to represent a nation of millions. But we are not Arabs, not in light of recent developments.
So I ask the non-Arab Muslim world and the non-Muslim world, directly and plainly: with whom, exactly, are we supposed to remain united? A partner that cannot see us? A system that cannot trust us? A capital that appoints everyone except us?
The game is over. Says so a man who is still stupidly standing on the carcass of a union killed by the very people who are up to now shouting its name the loudest in global forums.
So I visited an Austro-Hungarian castle in Italy showing a map of the Horn of Africa from centuries ago. And of course Somalia did not include Somaliland then, just as it doesn’t include it now.
None of these are internationally recognized by the UN, but they do have emoji flags.
Why not the Republic of Somaliland?
🇽🇰 Kosovo:
🇹🇼 Taiwan :
🇵🇸 Palestine:
🇪🇭 Western Sahara:
@Osman_estate "A failed state like Somalia, which does not control beyond the capital Mogadishu. The rest of its territory is controlled by the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab A new battalion of Ghanaian police officers arrived in Mogadishu this week to be part of the African peacekeeping
God Bless Israel 🇮🇱 🙏
"Through its humanitarian medical initiatives, Israel has provided life-saving healthcare to children worldwide, including free heart surgeries for thousands of children suffering from serious heart conditions."
Yasser Arafat was smiling and shaking hands with dictator Siad Barre.
The dictator whose regime carried out the Isaaq Genocide, slaughtering up to 200,000 Somalilanders and turning Hargeisa into rubble
Meanwhile, in 1990 at the United Nations, Israel was the sole country condemning Barre’s massacres and supporting Somaliland. One side celebrated the butcher, while the other defended the victims.
We remember those who stood with us. Somaliland stands with Israel.
@ResoluteTitan88 Yasser Arafat smiled and shook hands with dictator Siad Barre, whose regime committed the Isaaq Genocide in Somaliland.
Meanwhile, at the 1990 UN, Israel was the sole country condemning Barre’s massacres.
Decades later, the bond is official. Somaliland stands with Israel.
@RizzyHJ Somaliland is strong and absolutely perfect! 🌟 We need neither a UN seat nor the Arab League. After 30 years of magnificent independent achievement, our focus is clear: our future, our security, and above all else, the education and well-being of our children.