
Why the US should not recognize Somaliland
Washington’s own record of intervention in the Horn of Africa — not Mogadishu’s — is the strongest case against recognizing Somaliland now.
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Markus Virgil Hoehne is a social anthropologist at the University of Göttingen. He has been researching Somali issues for 25 years and has extensively published on Somaliland, Puntland, conflict dynamics, state formation, and political Islam in Somalia.

Washington’s own record of intervention in the Horn of Africa — not Mogadishu’s — is the strongest case against recognizing Somaliland now.