Somaliland

Last week, a delegation from Somaliland went on a five-day tour of Taiwan, a trip that elicited a negative reaction from China.

As an 11-year-old growing up in Somaliland, then a British protectorate, Edna Adan Ismail had a powerful dream.

He was a young British army officer who was mauled by a lioness several months ago in Somaliland.

This is the way the thing happened: Last March he was shooting in Somaliland and ran across a lioness.

In Abyssinia and Somaliland, among the native population, the most primitive methods of coffee making still obtain.

Further north a large slice has been carved out of Somaliland, facing on the Gulf of Aden.

The ships of the expedition are drawn up along the shores of Punt (in Somaliland), and incense trees are being carried on board.