Word: somalia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time to Swallow. Most volatile issue in Ethiopia today, however, is not economics but relations with the neighboring Somalilands (TIME, Sept. 14). In the rise of a Pan-Somalia movement among the tribes of French, British and Italian Somaliland, the Ethiopians fancy they discern the bogeyman of British and Italian imperialism. This, plus Italian Somali-land's decision to demand a U.N.-supervised referendum in Somali grazing lands inside the borders of Ethiopia, constitute one of the chief sources of Haile Selassie's growing suspicion of the West. With an age-old fear of Moslem encirclement, the Ethiopians...
...conquest of Italian East Africa. Now after years of somnolence, it is back in the news-once again as a trouble spot. The Italians, who kept postwar control of their onetime colony under a temporary U.N. trusteeship, due to wind up at the end of 1960, have announced that Somalia may become independent any time the Somalis like...
...stands to become the father of this unprepossessing new country is handsome young (37) Premier Abdullahi Issa, and last week he was worried as only a prospective father can be. It was not just that the Italian government has been providing half Somalia's income. There was also the difficulty that, though camels are Somalia's chief source of wealth, much of the Somali nomads' grazing lands lie over the border in Ethiopia. To the frustrated disgust of Somali nationalists, moreover, French Somaliland voted last year to stay in the French Community, and the French, determined...
...fling them into the air, arrived back in Mogadiscio from four years' self-imposed exile as one of Nasser's Cairo broadcasters. Almost at once Haji Mohammed formed a Greater Somali League to rival Issa's Somali Youth League, and charged that Issa favored a Little Somalia, confined to Italian Somaliland, because he feared his Hawiya tribe would be swamped in a state that brought 3,000,000 Somalis together. On the eve of showdown elections last spring, Haji Mohammed was refused permission to lead a parade of his partisans in Mogadiscio. "The blood...
...born, Liberia and Ethiopia were the only independent states on the continent. Today there are another eight-Egypt, the Sudan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, the Union of South Africa. Ghana and Toure's own Guinea. In the land known as "Black Africa"* four more territories-the Cameroons. Togoland, Somalia and the vast land of Nigeria, Britain's biggest colonial possession-will be free...