After the Second Italo-Abyssinian War of 1935--1936, Italy swept away the borders between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland with the creation of Italian East Africa as a united colonyBritish Somaliland into its control after the August 1940 East Africa Campaign.
After the Second Italo-Abyssinian War of 1935--1936, Italy swept away the borders between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland with the creation of Italian East Africa as a united colony. It also brought the Somali tribes of British Somaliland into its control after the August 1940 East Africa Campaign.