Capital of unrecognized Somaliland

TOKYO, Japan - A monument of a combat airplane, made in the former Soviet Union, is displayed against the backdrop of a building under construction in Hargeisa, the capital of the unrecognized breakaway republic of Somaliland, northeastern Somalia, on Oct. 13, 2010. The airplane was used in a civil war during the 1980s.

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