Heshiis between Somalia and UAE regarding Berbera

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September 30 (Jowhar)— Dhaxal-sugaha Imaaradda Abu dhabi, ahna Abaanduulaha ciidamada qalabka sida ee dalka Isutagga Imaaraadka Carabta Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan ayaa shir jaraa’id oo uu qabtay September 25, waxa uu ku sheegay in dalkiisu heshiis la galay dalalka Soomaaliya iyo Masar, kadib wadahadal ay la sameeyeen dowladda Mareykanka si looga dhiso Magaalada Berbera ee waqooyi galbeed Soomaaliya dekad ganacsi midda ugu weyn dunida.

Berbera , waxa ay dhacdaa meel u dhow gacanka Cadmeed oo ah marinka “ Baab Al Mandab” oo ah goob laga go’doomin karo dekadaha iyo Maraakiibta wadamada Djibouti , Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Masar , Saldannada Cumaan iyo Bahrain.
 
UAE have trained and given aid and helped Somalia for years now.
Somalia is a case in point. In early May 2015, the United Arab Emirates expanded its long-running train and equip partnership with Somalia’s counterterrorism unit and National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), opening a new U.A.E.-funded training center in Mogadishu where Emirati special forces operators have trained several unitsof Somalicommandos. In late May 2015, the Emirates supplied the Interim Jubba Administration at Kismayo with a batch of RG-31 Mk. V MRAPs and Toyota Land Cruisers. These were followed in June by a shipment of Reva Mk. III armored personnel carriers, water tanker trucks, and police motorcycles for the Somali federal government’s Ministry of Internal Security and Police. In October 2015, the United Arab Emirates pledged to pay the salaries of the Somali federal government security forces over a four-year period.

The United Arab Emirates has also wooed Somalia’s regional rival, the autonomous Somaliland region. In May 2016, Dubai Ports World won a 30-year contract to manage the port of Berberaand expand it into a regional logistics hub, breaking up Djibouti’s virtual monopoly on Ethiopian freight via the Doraleh Container Terminal through the joint development by Somaliland and Ethiopia of the Berbera Corridor as an alternative logistics route. The United Arab Emirates is also said to be seeking access to the Berbera port and airstrip to support its operations in Yemen, and may provide Somaliland with a financial aid package and an Emirati-built military training center.

In Puntland, an autonomous region in northeastern Somalia, the United Arab Emirates also paid for the Puntland Maritime Police Forceto be established in 2010, with anti-piracy training provided by a succession of private security companies, a cause for some controversy. The PMPF operates bases in Bosaso, Puntland’s primary port on the Gulf of Aden coast, and Eyl on the Indian Ocean coast. The PMPF air wing operates three UAE-donated Ayers S2R Thrush aircraft and an Alouette III helicopter. The UAE also finances and trains the Puntland Intelligence Agency. When the Gulf Coalition naval blockade sought to interdict Iranian weapons smuggling to the Houthis, the Emirati investment in Puntland and Somaliland seems to have paid off, shutting off known Iranian transshipment points like Bosaso and Berbera.
 
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