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Aftermath of Second World War – Birth of Somalia

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The south and east of the present Somali Republic had been a former Italian colony. The defeat of the so-called ‘Axis powers’: Germany, Italy and Japan in the Second World War, (1939 -45) after which when Italy lost her former colonies in Africa was the aftermath of the Somali independence. Britain occupied the former Italian …

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Personal Account on 26 June 1960

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In general, the independence of a colonised country or nation begins at 12 o’clock mid-night, which is also quite rightly called the midnight freedom. It was (is) customary that the colonial Governor must leave the colonised country on the day before that country ‘s independence. That is before the flag, which that Governor represented would …

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