If you had asked me a week ago about the location of Somaliland, like 99.99% of my fellow Americans, I would have drawn a blank.
I knew, of course, that Somalia, a mish-mash of tribes in the Horn of Africa, was basically a failed state and that a famous, exasperating Somali congresswoman who hates America could well be in this country illegally. I was also well aware—how could I not be—of the outrageous metastasizing scandal in Minnesota and elsewhere with Somali immigrants accused of defrauding billions in taxpayer money via phony daycare centers and other faux government enterprises. I saw the nauseating defenses of these practices by Minnesota’s execrable governor, who might have been our vice president—we dodged the proverbial bullet on that one—and the equally execrable mayor of Minneapolis.
But nothing about Somaliland… until December 26, 2025, when I read that Israel became the first United Nations member state to formally recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state.
It could be another member of the Abraham Accords.
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