the argument against Somaliland’s independence rests largely on factors beyond the country’s control. Somaliland officials are used to hearing that if their independence were recognised, it would set off a domino effect for nationalist movements, destabilising the continent. If Somaliland were independent, what would stop other regions from trying the same thing?
International organisations such as the African Union and the Arab League are hostile to the idea of recognising further territorial divisions. Countries wary of their own separatist movements don’t want to establish any sort of precedent. The UN, which has invested enormous resources in promoting stability and unity in Somalia as a whole, views Somaliland as a hindrance to those goals rather than any sort of beacon of stability. Somaliland’s neighbour Ethiopia mostly supports it, but given Addis Ababa’s wariness about its own Somali separatists, it likely prefers the status quo – a weak and divided Somalia – rather than a strong independent Somali state on its borders. The two most recent instances of country creation in Africa – autocratic, impoverished and anarchic, violent – have not bolstered Somaliland’s argument that its recognition would be a boon to regional and global stability.
from the guardian long read: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/j ... are_btn_tw
and I haven’t even study international politics . It’s just logic . Even America will split in two the south and the north. The south will claim that their government at the time of slavery attacked the south using government issued rifles and ammunition etc. they can prove that they had a armed struggle with their government. They all technically merged also and formed a union . The super wealthy red necks would fight tooth and nail for it.