Africa
No pomp or parades as Somalia marks 50 years
Somali’s displaced jostle for food rations distributed by a Mogadishu-based Somali NGO at a feeding centre in southern Mogadishu on June 30. NGO officials say the camp feeds several hundred families a day. Photo/AFP
Posted Friday, July 2 2010 at 19:16
The TFG was established as one of the Transitional Federal Institutions of government as defined in the Transitional Federal Charter (TFC) adopted in November 2004 after one and a half years of negotiation in Kenya.
The birth of Somaliland
The trouble started in Somali when then president the late Said Barre’s government was toppled 1991 by a combined northern and southern clan-based forces, it is alleged that Ethiopia backed and armed the clan forces.
Subsequently the same year the northern part formerly the British portion of the country declared its independence as Somaliland in May 1991.
However though Somaliland enjoyed de facto independence and relatively stable compared to the tumultuous south, it has not been recognized by the international community or any foreign government.
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