Yes that's right. Somalia. The most dangerous country on the planet. Well, sort of. The international image of Somalia is one giant boomerang shaped basket case populated by a cast of ruthless buccaneers - Treasure Island or Pirates of the Caribbean it certainly ain’t. My advance research on the FCO webpage makes for grim reading. However, the country is actually three states in one. Somalia main in the south: the Somalia of your nightmares. Above it the equally anarchic separatist state of Puntland, which occupies the tip of Africa's Horn. Finally, to the west of this, another breakaway fledgling nation, Somaliland (formerly British Somaliland before Somalia's independence). Of the three, only Somaliland is accessible to travellers retaining their sanity. It is still a little dangerous; in 2003 Somali insurgents crossed the border and shot a number
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