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In April 2014, the interior ministers of Somaliland and Djibouti met in Lawyacado. [25] In May 2014, an explosion killed three people in a restaurant in Djibouti. Al-Shabaab was responsible for the crime. [26] The perpetrators were found to have entered Djibouti via Lawyacado from Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland. [27]
Somaliland is situated in the northwest of recognised Somalia. It lies between 08°N and 11°30'N, and between 42°30'E and 49°00'E. [40] It is bordered by Djibouti to the west, Ethiopia to the south, and Somalia to the east. Somaliland has an 850 kilometres (528 mi) coastline with the majority lying along the Gulf of Aden.
Hargeisa is the financial hub to many entrepreneurial industries ranging from finance, retail, imports/export warehouses to gem cutters, construction, food processing, textiles and livestock trading. In June 2012, the Partnership Fund for the private sector in Somaliland was launched at Hargeisa's Ambassador Hotel.
"Awdal in western Somaliland is situated between Djibouti, Ethiopia, and the Issaq-populated mainland of Somaliland. It is primarily inhabited by the three sub-clans of the Gadabursi clan, whose traditional institutions survived the colonial period, Somali statehood and the war in good shape, remaining functionally intact and highly relevant to ...
The destruction of Hargeisa and Burao (Somali: duqayntii Hargeysa iyo Burco) occurred in 1988 during the Somali Civil War. It was part of a counteroffensive launched by the Somali government under President Mohamed Siad Barre against the Somali National Movement (SNM), an opposition group active in northern Somalia (modern-day Somaliland).
Somaliland: City: Hargeisa: Time zone: UTC+3 : Ahmed Dhagah District (Somali: Degmada Axmed Dhagax) is a district in Hargeisa, Somaliland. It is one of the eight ...
She was married three times, including to Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal, who was the prime minister of the State of Somaliland five days prior to Trust Territory of Somalia's independence and later the Somali Republic (1960–1960) and (1967–1969) and President of Somaliland (1993–2002), although the two divorced after five years.
In July 2020, Somaliland announced that it would establish a representative office in Taiwan (Republic of China). [42] The Taiwan Representative Office officially was established in Hargeisa the next month. [43] In August, Taiwan opened its office in Somaliland, which was reciprocated by Somaliland by opening an office in Taiwan on 9 September ...