article_snippet: For starters, their country doesn't exist at all according to the international community, which recognises their country only as part of Somalia, the troubled nation where piracy is rife and terrorist organisation Al-Shabaab is based.
article_snippet: Although not officially recognised as a country, Somaliland neighbours Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia .
article_snippet: This association with Somalia is the reason western governments such as the UK and Canada call the self-proclaimed independent entity and former British
article_snippet: As far as Somaliland is concerned, their country has been independent since 1991 and the only thing holding their country back is the fact that isn't being recognised globally.
article_snippet: the nation gained independence from Britain in 1960 before joining the former Italian Somaliland but the countries encountered strife under the rule of dictator Mohammad Siad Barre, whose regime killed tens of thousands of Somalilanders due to tribal connection during a brutal civil war from 1988. 
article_snippet: When whose regime fell in 1991, Somaliland declared whose regime still unrecognised independence.
highlights_snippet: Somaliland has been self-declared independent since 1991 but Somaliland is still not recognised internationally .
  