Somaliland

For a time, she was foreign minister of Somaliland.

16: On her own in drought-stricken Sool, along Somaliland's disputed eastern border, a nomadic woman watches over her herd.

The Somaliland government called on voters to ignore the threat, and international monitors say the turnout appears to have been high.

Somaliland's first archaeologist, Mire is now on a mission to preserve and protect what she says is a heritage at risk of disappearing.

Somalia - Thank God that Somaliland in the northwest has been able to stabilize the region and restore order.

The northern region of Somalia was part of the British protectorate of Somaliland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Kosovo is independent, Russia can, t do much about it, why won, t Russia allow Somaliland to be independent?

In a cocoon of calm, women have their hair styled and feet decorated with henna in Hargeysa, Somaliland's capital.

Somaliland is a breakaway republic carved from Somalia but recognized by no outside country.

The Silver Filters Company recently held a training program for potters from Somaliland, so it is already gaining international attention.

The agency says more girls should be in school, that need exists in all of Somalia, not just Puntland and Somaliland.

Somaliland declared independence in 1991, but isn't internationally recognized as a separate state.

Ethiopia might agree. It needs a stable Somaliland to pipe gas from a newly found field in the east to the coast.

This month the incumbent in Somaliland, a nation-in-waiting, conceded electoral defeat.

Somaliland is pushing for international recognition and has been building a democratic state.

Townsmen in the breakaway Republic of Somaliland shoulder goats to a boat for export.

A hospital here in Somaliland found that 96 percent of women it surveyed had undergone infibulation.

Refreshingly, it does sometimes happen, as in Somaliland earlier this month and in Ghana in the past decade.

Here, boys play on a roof overlooking a camp in Somaliland.

The African Union refuses to recognise Somaliland's independence because it dislikes changing any African borders.

Now he guards a handful of pirates and other prisoners sent to this location by the government of the breakaway Republic of Somaliland.

But modern contraception doesn't exist in this part of Somaliland.

The Italian Somaliland came under British administration from 1943 until 1949.

Yet to the north, the breakaway region of Somaliland is stable and at peace.

In 1960, Italian Somaliland united with British Somaliland to form the Republic of Somalia.