Physical communication between Somalia’s two regions was nearly nonexistent after union
Evidence
There was no direct telephone link between Hargeisa and Mogadishu; and although the two centres were connected by irregular police flights, and by a regular twice weekly air-service, the journey by road frequently took three days to accomplish. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 434
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The nineteenth-century partition entrenched barriers that doomed future Somali unity.