A nomad’s life is hard
Should the world now accept Somaliland as an independent state?
THIS is a country of about 3m people, five telephone companies, seven airlines and, according to the government's improbable statistics, 10,442,443 goats. These facts about Somaliland are not unrelated.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “A nomad’s life is hard”
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