AllAfrica News: Western Sahara

AU's Recognition Dilemma: Why Somaliland Deserves Its Place Among African States--With a Case Stronger Than Western Sahara's

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The African Union (AU) has consistently stood for self-determination, decolonization, and the inviolability of colonial borders. Yet it is inconsistent in extending these principles to Somaliland. Although the dispute regarding Western Sahara rages on unchecked, Somaliland's more valid legal and historic claim to be recognized is unjustifiably neglected. The time has come now for the AU to move in accordance with legal integrity and moral clarity and grant Somaliland recognition as an independent African

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