"land" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Around the same time, the people fighting for Somali lands in Ethiopia to be part of Somalia turned to the example of the Afgani Mujahideen, and created their own group called al-Ittihad al-Islamiyya or the Islamic Union.
- The latter of course again fighting the injustices of the British who again ceded Somali land to Ethiopia.
- This prompted an unsuccessful bid by Britain in 1956 to buy back the Somali lands it had turned over.
- The British, who were principally interested in securing the flow of cattle supplies to Aden in Yemen just across the Red Sea from the Somali lands, were content to rule indirectly.
- Preoccupation with Greater Somalia shaped the character of the country's newly-formed institutions and led to the build-up of the Somali military in preperation for campaigns to retrieve Somali land.
- Prior to that date June/July 1960 and aterwards, the Brits also oversaw the divving up of Somali lands by sedeing Somali inhabited territories to Ethiopia and Kenya as well as exchanging the Somali territory of Jibouti for Gambia, which was then a French held territory.
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