Israel becomes first country to recognize Somaliland

Somalia has slammed West Jerusalem’s move as “deliberate attack” on its sovereignty

Israel has become the first country to officially recognize the independence of Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, the government in West Jerusalem has announced.

Somaliland cut ties with Somalia’s central government in Mogadishu in 1991 following a decade-long conflict. The Sunni Muslim region, which sits on the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden in East Africa...