Somali MPS start motion to sue UAE over berbera base

[PanSomaliNationalist]

And look at this bootyshaking thread below
https://www.somalinet.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=383553
I tried telling them but they didn't want to listen. It's not over yet

[Prlnce]

It's a good move by the MPs that oppose Farmaajo.

1. By supporting the motion. He has to oppose the deal and anger the U.A.E. And Somalia being a poor nation, with a talent for begging can't afford to isolate the U.A.E.

2. He has to publicly support the Berbera deal like the rest of the flip-flopping Darood. That went from opposing it to supporting it. To blaming Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. To signing their own port deal

So it's a win win for the Opposition well played MPs

[X.Playa]

Its win win for SL we enjoy faqash embarrassment.

[AwRastaale]

Meaningless.

These guys can't even stop an AMISOM soldier from blocking them out from their own so called parliament.

Berbera is long gone.

Next thing.

[TheblueNwhite]

War Farmaajo got a nice pay day from UAE. He aint gonnado jack about Berbera. That ship has sailed.

Why do you think Cumar Cabdirashid is the focal point for UAE-Somalia deals.

[AwRastaale]

The only people who are fearful of this base and Berbera development are Darood, Houthis, Egypt and Iran.

Everyone has else in the world are for it including the US who just signed the $110b arms deal with KSA.

UAE will sign its own billions with Pentagon and some of that hot cash will trinkle its way to Somaliland.

Just in from Bloomberg:

A proposed United Arab Emirates base in semi-autonomous northern Somalia may add a naval facility to a military airport, extending the Arab nation’s reach on the Horn of Africa coastline, a Somali official said.

The U.A.E. has leased the airport in the Somaliland port town of Berbera for 25 years and is still negotiating terms of use, Somaliland Foreign Minister Saad Ali Shire said in an interview. Berbera is located on the Gulf of Aden, about 260 kilometers (162 miles) south of Yemen, where U.A.E. troops in a Saudi Arabia-led coalition are battling Houthi rebels, and on the approach to the Bab el-Mandeb, a choke-point in global shipping that gives tankers access to the Red Sea and Suez Canal.

“It will be like any other base in the world,” Shire said by phone. “They’ll use it as a sort of surveillance facility, a training facility, and sometimes as an operational facility.” An official at the U.A.E.’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Famed for its financial allure and skyscrapers, the U.A.E. is increasingly flexing its military and diplomatic muscle as traditional Arab powers are mired in war or political turmoil. Since 2014, in addition to its Yemen intervention, the U.A.E. has backed the U.S. campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria and reportedly launched air strikes against Islamist fighters in Libya.

The proposed Somaliland base could be the U.A.E.’s second in Africa, after reports of one being established in Eritrea, the secretive state that sits on the Bab el-Mandeb and which a United Nations monitoring group says supports the Saudi coalition’s Yemen war. The Berbera airport was variously used by the Soviet Union and U.S. during the Cold War, when Somalia’s loyalty shifted between the two world powers.

No Limits

“The U.A.E. armed forces in general can use the base” at Berbera, with the preliminary agreement placing no limits on the operations they can carry out, according to Shire. The non-public pact stipulates that the Emirates’ air force alone can use the airport, not any of its allies, he said.

“The base will start from the airport,” senior presidential economic adviser Ahmed Hassan Arwo said by phone from Hargeisa, Somaliland’s main city. “Later on, if they have need for a naval base they can do this extension, but it will be negotiated.”

The UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea said in October that satellite imagery taken between September 2015 and at least a year later showed construction of a new port adjacent to Eritrea’s Assab International Airport, about 380 kilometers northwest of Berbera.

The rest of the article:

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/arti ... rica-reach

[xiimaaya]

use is enemy state we will Never forget this. One day we.will.make them pay for it.

[X.Playa]

use is enemy state we will Never forget this. One day we.will.make them pay for it.

Shouldn't you be canning tuna instead of engaging in idle tribal chat.

[mahoka]

use is enemy state we will Never forget this. One day we.will.make them pay for it.

Shouldn't you be canning tuna instead of engaging in idle tribal chat.