{"id":19971,"date":"2016-03-28T14:44:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T14:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arabsiyonews.net\/?p=19971"},"modified":"2016-03-28T14:44:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T14:44:53","slug":"what-somaliland-can-teach-the-rest-of-africa-about-peace-and-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/28\/what-somaliland-can-teach-the-rest-of-africa-about-peace-and-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"What Somaliland can teach the rest of Africa about peace and stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tooshnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fire.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25220\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tooshnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fire.jpg?resize=696%2C300\" alt=\"Image: REUTERS\/Feisal Omar\" width=\"696\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>People often look at me with a bewildered expression on their face when I mention the Republic of Somaliland. Many assume that I meant to say Somalia. Mention the Horn of Africa and people inevitably think of Somalia, a failed state, crippled by a protracted civil war, instability and Al Shabaab.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>Yet, when I explain the existence of Somaliland, a territory larger in size than England and Wales located in northern Somalia, which has been a peaceful, stable and democratic <i>de facto <\/i>state for the last 25 years, the bewildered expressions turn to surprise and then intrigue.<\/p>\n<p>Read More\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2016\/03\/what-somaliland-can-teach-africa-about-peace-and-stability\" target=\"_blank\">What Somaliland can teach the rest of Africa about peace and stability<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often look at me with a bewildered expression on their face when I mention the Republic of Somaliland. Many assume that I meant to say Somalia. Mention the Horn of Africa and people inevitably think of Somalia, a failed state, crippled by a protracted civil war, instability and Al Shabaab. Yet, when I explain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-english-news","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kp1p-5c7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}