By Ed Stoddard
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Wanted: investors for small African nation with good oil and mineral potential – no seat at the United Nations but history of independence in rough neighborhood.
The break-away nation of Somaliland is a tough sell but the announcement this week that serious hydrocarbon exploration is about to kick off there shows that oil talks, regardless of political status.
For Somaliland, an internationally unrecognised state of 3.5 million people that declared independence from Somalia in 1991, it promises to be a game changer.
