🔴Tuesday May 18th 2021
🔵2021年5月18日星期二
🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda
每日濃縮 - 今日頭條
🎊3️⃣0️⃣🎊Independence day: Somaliland at 30
獨立日:索馬利蘭三十週年慶
Thirty years ago today Somaliland declared independence from Somalia. The country of 4.5m people in the Horn of Africa can look back on three relatively successful decades. Unlike its larger war-torn neighbour, Somaliland is stable and peaceful. What the smaller nation lacks, however, is recognition of its sovereignty. It has been under the nominal suzerainty of its bigger neighbour since the one-time British Somaliland united with the former Italian territory to create modern Somalia in 1960. Though foreigners sympathise with Somaliland’s lack of statehood, Western and African countries say that formal independence must have Somalia’s approval—which it will not give, lest it encourage its own restless areas. So Somaliland is stuck, independent in practice but not in the eyes of the rest of the world. This makes it harder for it to attract aid and investment—a big problem in a country of mass youth unemployment where 70% of the population has been born since 1991.
在三十年前的今天,索馬利蘭 (Somaliland) 宣佈從索馬利亞 (Somalia,位於東非) 脫離獨立。這個位於非洲之角,擁有 450萬人口的國家有著相對繁榮成功的三十載歲月。不像它飽受戰爭摧殘的鄰居 (即索馬利亞),索馬利蘭既穩定又和平。不過這個小國缺的,是來自他國的主權承認。自 1960年,當時的英屬索馬利蘭 (在脫離了殖民母國後) 與義屬索馬利亞合併成今日的索馬利亞,而索馬利亞就一直是索馬利蘭名義上的宗主國。儘管外國同情索馬利蘭缺乏國家地位,西方與 (其他) 非洲國家仍坦言其正式的獨立必須經過索馬利亞的同意。不過索馬利亞想當然並不會這樣做,以免刺激其國內其他的動盪地區。有著實質上的獨立卻無法在國際舞台上現身的索馬利蘭因而陷入困境,並使得它很難吸引到 (外國) 援助和 (國際) 投資。這是這個總人口 70%在 1991年後才出生之青年失業大國所面臨的一個大問題。
⚜️Daily takeaway⚜️
每日單字精選
✅Declare independence (v.): 宣布獨立 (動)
✅Relatively (adv.): 相對地 (副)
✅Successful (adj.): 成功的 (形)
✅Stable (adj.): 穩定的 (形)
✅Sovereignty (n.): 主權 (名)
✅Sympathise (v.): 同情 (動)
✅Approval (n.): 核可、核准 (名)
✅Unemployment (n.): 失業率 (名)
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