Three men charged with plotting to bomb an apartment complex in western Kansas, where Muslim immigrants from Somalia lived and had a mosque, wanted to kill as many as possible and send a message they were not welcome in the United States, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
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Emirates to train Somaliland Air forces, army Forces
UAE to Train Somaliland Forces Under Military Base Deal:
Somaliland President
ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will train Somaliland security forces as part of a deal to establish a military base in the semi-autonomous region, Somaliland’s president said on Thursday.
UAE government officials could not immediately be reached for comment – but the UAE has committed to invest hundreds of million dollars in recent years in the territory on a strategically important stretch of coastline on the Gulf of Aden.
The UAE began construction last year of a base on a site at the airport of the Somaliland port city Berbera, and will be allowed to maintain a presence for 30 years. Berbera is less than 300 km (190 miles) south of war-torn Yemen, where UAE troops are fighting rebels as part of a Saudi-backed coalition.
President Muse Bihi Abdi said the UAE would train police and military in Somaliland, which wants independence from war-torn Somalia but is not recognized internationally. He said he expected the agreement to be finalised within two months
“They have the resources and the knowledge,” Abdi told Reuters in an interview in Abu Dhabi.
UAE has become more assertive in its foreign policy in recent years. The UAE Armed Forces have been fighting in the Yemen conflict since 2015 and in the past deployed in international operations including Kosovo and Afghanistan.
Abdi said the military base, which he expects will be completed this year, will guarantee economic development and security for Somaliland and act as a deterrent to extremist groups in the region.
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Somaliland’s Foreign Minister, Saad Ali Shire, who was present during the interview, declined to disclose how many UAE soldiers would be stationed at the base.
“POLITICAL MISTAKE”
Several regional powers have set up military bases along the Horn of Africa coastline, including Turkey in Somalia’s capital. The United States, China, Japan and France all have bases in neighboring Djibouti.
“It’s safer to have a lot of military in the area,” Abdi said.
Abdi said he hoped UAE investments, including a new civilian airport and a road connecting Berbera to landlocked Ethiopia, will lead to a “huge creation of employment” in Somaliland where unemployment is rampant.
“The biggest threat to Somaliland is poverty,” he said.
Dubai’s DP World is also developing Berbera port and building a free trade zone nearby.
This week, Somalia’s parliament voted to ban DP World from the country, an act that it said had nullified the agreement.
Abdi said the vote was a “joke” and a “political mistake” that would have no impact on the DP World agreement that includes the government of Ethiopia
Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 and has acted as a de-facto state since then..
Abdi also said he expected the UAE would make a hard currency deposit into Somaliland’s central bank but added that there had been no agreement between the two sides.
(Reporting by Alexander Cornwell; Editing by Maggie Fick and Andrew Heaven
Shakir Essa
Ghost Nation’s, countries that’s not officially recognized by United Nation
I’ve taken ‘unrecognised’ to mean any country that is not recognised by every other country (which expands the list a bit).
- Somaliland, recognised by no other state. Originally British Somaliland, it become independent and merged with Italian Somaliland in 1960. Later it declared independence in 1991 and withdrew from being part of Somalia.
- Republic of Artsakh (Former Nagorno-Karabakh), recognised by three non-UN member states. Declared independence from Azerbaijan in 1992. It is wholly within Azerbaijan, but is not controlled by it.
- Transnistria, recognised by three non-UN member states. Declared independence from Moldova in 1990. It is separated from Moldova by a large river.
- Abkhazia, recognised by 6 UN members. De facto independent of Georgia since 1999, but still claimed as part of Georgia.
- Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic(sometimes together called Novorossiya) – two separatist areas in eastern Ukraine, recognised only by South Ossetia.
- Republic of China (Taiwan), recognised by 22 UN members and the Vatican. Claims to be the de jure government of China.
- Kosovo, recognised by 99 UN members. Claimed by Serbia but has been administered by the EU and the UN since the 1990s. Now has a government but it is poorly recognised internationally.
- Northern Cyprus, recognised by Turkey. Illegally declared independence and is claimed by Cyprus.
- Palestine, recognised by 132 UN members and Somaliland. Israel does not recognise Palestine and controls some of Palestine’s claimed territory.
- Sahrawi, recognised by 84 countries and is a member of the African Union. It claims most of Western Sahara, which is controlled by Morocco. Currently governs in exile in Algeria.
- South Ossetia, recognised by 5 UN members. De facto independent of Georgia since 1991, but continues to be claimed as Georgian territory.
- Armenia, not recognised by Pakistan. Pakistan does not recognise Armenia because Armenia supports Nagorno-Karabakh and Pakistan did not because of Pakistan’s support for Azerbaijan.
- Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), unrecognised by any country but controls large swathes of territory in northern Iraq and Syria.
- China, not recognised by the 22 countries that recognise Taiwan. The United Nations only accepts the People’s Republic of China as the government of China.
- Cyprus, not recognised by Turkey or Northern Cyprus.
- Israel, 32 countries do not recognise Israel. Israeli territory is also claimed by Palestine, which does recognise Israel.
- South Korea, not recognised by North Korea, claims to be the sole government of Korea.
- North Korea, not recognised by South Korea, claims to be the sole government of Korea.
Bonus:
These are former de jure or de facto countries that still ‘exist’ to an extent. This includes governments in exile and other organisations.
- Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta, does not claim statehood or independence, but has diplomatic relations with 104 other countries.
- Tibet, government is in exile and claims some territory, but has no control over it nor is it recognised by any other nation.
- Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Taliban government that claims Afghanistan, currently in exile since 2001.
- Republic of South Maluku, claims part of Indonesia since the 1950s, currently in exile in the Netherlands.
- Biafra, claims to be resurrecting the nation of Biafra, which is currently part of Nigeria. In exile in Washington.
- Republic of Serbian Krajina, currently in exile in Belgrade, claims part of Croatia which it controlled for a short period of time before Croatian independence.
- Federated Shan States, in exile, wants to create an independent state for the Shan ethnic group in Burma.
- Western Kurdistan, wants to create a Kurdish state in Syria, in exile in London.
- East Turkistan, claims independence from Xinjiang in western China, in exile in Washington.
- Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, claimed to be independent by Chechens government in exile in London.
- Ambazonia, declared independence on 31st December 1999 from Cameroon, currently in exile.
- Koma Civakên Kurdistan, aims to create an independent Kurdish state in Turkey.
- Republic of Cabinda, claims independence from Angola Currently in exile in the Congo.
- West Papua, claims an independent West Papua, which is currently controlled by Indonesia. In exile in the Netherlands.
- Tamil Eelam, seeks Tamil independence from Sri Lanka, in exile.
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UAE is required to send official invitations to all Arab countries for the Arab League summit, which will be held this year in Saudi Arabia,
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For Somaliland as independent nation from Somalia,
The relatively stable Somaliland declared its independence in 1991 following the fall of the Siad Barre regime but has remained in a limbo with no recognition from the world nation’s
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