rest the irredentist ' reater Somalia" policies which have led to two wars between the former Somali Republic and Ethiopia and to friction between the Somali Republic and Kenya. Somaliland's unequivocal policy towards its neighbouring countries is enshrined in the Somaliland Constitution and its practical applicat

t opinion 'In the case of Somaliland. insistence by the African Union on the increasingly abstract notion of the unity and territorial integrity of the Somali Republic. with Somalilanders governed again from Mogadishu. is both unrealistic and unsupported by more than twenty years of state practice. My attempt to r