Somaliland slams Somalia’s opposition to Israeli military presence

Somaliland has criticized the comments by Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud regarding Israel’s plan to establish a military unit in the Horn of Africa.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Mohamud declared that his country will “never accept the presence of Israel in Somalia under any circumstances.”
The President said Israel plans a naval base in Somaliland’s Berbera port near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, depicting the move as part of the “Greater Israel” project.
In its response, Somaliland maintained that Somalia has no authority to determine its foreign relations as both are “separate sovereign states with different governance realities.”
The Foreign Ministry said Somaliland’...