Umstritten, aber völlig zurecht streckte er der abtrünnigen Region Somaliland die Hand aus, bevor dies noch in Mode kam. Er ging dabei so weit ihm dies ohne formelle Wiederanerkennung dieses demokratischen Hoffnungsschimmers am Horn von Afrika möglich war.&nbsp;
And yet he controversially but rightly held out a hand of friendship to the breakaway region of Somaliland, before it became fashionable, and went as far as he could short of formal re-recognition of that ray of democratic hope in the Horn of Africa.