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cave paintings, located near Hargeisa, are 4,000–11,000 years old

• ...that the Laas Geel cave paintings, located near Hargeisa, are 4,000–11,000 years old?

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• ...that the Berbera Airport has a 4,140 m (13,582 ft) runway, one of the longest on the continent.[2] The runway was built by the Soviet Union (USSR) in the mid-1970s in order to counter the United States' military presence in the region.[3] It was rented by NASA at a cost of $40 million USD per year, and used as an emergency landing site for the Space Shuttle from 1980 until 1991, when the government of former President of Somalia Siad Barre collapsed.?

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• ...that Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (pictured), emir of Diiriye Guure of the Dervish State, led a resistance war against British, Italian and Ethiopian forces for over two decades?

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• ...that Somalia was and still is known as the Nation of Poets?

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