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Israel declared on Friday, 26 December, that it viewed Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state, a move that drew a sharp rebuke from Somalia, which described the statement as an affront to its sovereignty and warned it could destabilize the region. According to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, the first country to formally recognize Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent state, planned to move quickly to deepen cooperation in areas including agriculture, health care, and technology. The…
