Somaliland is basically:
1880s the British needed security so their ships can travel between India and Suez via the Gulf of Aden/Red Sea.
Ships kept getting attacked by pirates. (Sound familiar?)
So British signed protection treaties with three Isaaq elders + 1 Warsangeli + 1 Dhulbahanta + 1 Gadabursi. "Dont attack our ships, and we will protect you from your enemies, the Ethiopians etc, we will maintain law and order)
Then in 1899 this schizo guy who was Dhulbahanta went to Mecca and got radicalized, and also influenced by the Mahdists in Sudan started a rebellion called the Dervish movement. He tore up the agreements the Dhulbahanta had with the British and declared Jihad. (But really wanted to punish Isaaqs for working with the British...) so the British formed the "Somaliland Camel Corps" full of Isaaqs and we destroyed him.
en.wikipedia.org
We are the most civilized Somalis, also the first to contact the outside world...and my subclan has Arab links on top of that.