What is Waddani in the country officially known as  the Republic of Somaliland
Somaliland Somaliland (Somali: "Somaliland" ; Arabic: صوماليلاند‎ ‎ "Ṣūmālīlānd ", أرض الصومال "Arḍ aṣ-Ṣūmāl "), officially the Republic of Somaliland (Somali: "Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland" , Arabic: جمهورية صوماليلاند‎ ‎ "Jumhūrīyat Ṣūmālīlānd"), is a self-declared state internationally recognised as an autonomous region of Somalia.
Wadai Empire The Wadai Empire or Sultanate (Arabic: سلطنة وداي‎ ‎ , French: "royaume du Ouaddaï" ; 1635–1912) was a kingdom located to the east of Lake Chad in present-day Chad and in the Central African Republic. It emerged in the sixteenth century as an offshoot of the Sultanate of Darfur (in present-day Sudan) to the northeast of the Kingdom of Baguirmi.