— 🇮🇱/🇸🇴 NEW: Israel has officially recognized ‘Somaliland’, a breakaway region of Somalia, as its own independent nation

Israel is the first and only ‘country’ worldwide to recognize Somaliland. It has likely done so because of its strategic location in the Horn of Africa and Gulf of Aden; Somaliland could serve as a strategic forward base for Israeli operations against Yemen.

@Middle_East_Spectator