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Somalia, Breakaway Region of Somaliland Agree on Full Security Cooperation, Reports Say

17:00, 30 December 2023

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Earlier this week, the leaders of Somalia and Somaliland held a meeting in Djibouti to resume negotiations on the political status of the breakaway region in Somalia's north.

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Somalia's government has agreed on full security cooperation with the breakaway Somaliland region, Somalian media reported on Saturday.

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Somalia, Unrecognized Somaliland to Resume Talks Over Somaliland's Independence

29 December 2023, 08:58

At the talks, the sides agreed to fight organized crime and pledged to prepare a roadmap for negotiations within 30 days, the Garowe Online news website reported.

Somalia collapsed as a unified nation in 1991 with the downfall of the country's former President Siad Barre. The international community recognized the Mogadishu-based federal government as the only legitimate authority in Somalia, while chunks of the country in the north and east remain under the control of self-proclaimed and unrecognized Somaliland and Puntland.