Somali: AU mission to Somaliland says recognition overdue

The African Union is coming under increased pressure from the breakaway Somaliland Republic to accord it recognition.
This follows revelations that an AU fact-finding mission to Somaliland between April 30 and May 4, 2005, had expressed the opinion that Somaliland had been made a "pariah region" by default. It strongly recommended the country's recognition, saying that since its declaration of independence in 1991, Somaliland has been steadily laying the foundations of a democratic "modern state."