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| | Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Somaliland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | In May of 1991, northern clans declared an independent Republic of Somaliland that now includes five of the eighteen administrative regions of Somalia, roughly the region between Ethiopia, Djibouti and the Gulf of Aden, an area of about 137,600 square kilometres. |
 | | The prime minister of British Somaliland, Ibrahim Egal, became a minister in the new republic of Somalia. |
 | | The south received the brunt of the civil war in the 1990s and was also the primary area affected by UN intervention, which strengthened the hold of the warlords. |
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