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![[Southwest Somalia flag]](../images/s/so!sws.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 27 Nov 2002
Image comes from this website.
Pascal Gross, 26 Nov 2002
I tried to gif that flag, assuming that the stars each have the form
of the well-known 5-pointed star upon the Somalian flag.
Jarig Bakker, 27 Nov 2002
A new Somali state has been declared this Sunday, newspapers reported.
It will be called "South-West Somalia" and the capital is Baidoa.
It hasn't been clarified yet if this is an independent state like Somalialand
or just autonomous one, like Puntland..
I doubt it will get recognition. Nothing on the symbols yet.
J.J.Andersson, 31 Mar 2002
More info on the State of Southwestern Somalia:
"SOMALIA: RRA sets up autonomous region
NAIROBI, 1 April (IRIN) - The Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA), which
controls the Bay and Bakol regions, southwestern Somalia, has set up a
new regional administration, an RRA senior official told IRIN on Monday.
The new autonomous region would be known as the State of Southwestern
Somalia, Muhammad Ali Adan Qalinle, the governor of Baidoa, said.
This is the third regional administration to be set up in Somalia, following the establishment of Somaliland (northwestern Somalia) and Puntland (in the northeast).
The decision was reached at a meeting of the RRA central committee and over 70 elders from the Digil and Mirifle clans. The meeting, which had been in session in Baidoa, the capital of Bay Region, 240 km southwest of Mogadishu, since 22 March, elected Colonel