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Somaliland rejects Somalia offer of key port to US
Season 1, Ep. 7218
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Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland has rejected an attempt by the central government to give the US exclusive control of a port and airbase in Berbera.
The city lies on the strategic Gulf of Aden, on the northern coast of Somaliland. The territory, which declared independence in 1991 as Somalia descended into civil war, says the facilities are not Mogadishu's to give away.
In a letter to US President Donald Trump, seen by Reuters news agency, Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud also offered port and airbase within Somalia, saying all four would strengthen US security operations.
Somaliland's Foreign Affairs Minister Abdirahman Dahir Aden dismissed the move as "desperate"....
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