Somaliland says UAE will launch attacks against Houthis from Berbera

[Deeq A.]

By Ahmed Abdi

Somaliland Representative Bashe Awil in Dubai said Monday that the United Arab Emirates UAE has a permission to launch attacks against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in the North and the West of Yemen.

Speaking with the BBC Somali Service, he said that the UAE stationed at a base near Berbera are training soldiers for Somaliland and can do attacks against the movement in Yemen.

UAE is part of the Arab Coalition that battling against Houthi movement that controls Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a and much of the country’s northwestern highlands.

A diplomatic row between UAE and Somali Federal Government is brewing after the Federal Government seized nearly $10m from UAE plane. UAE condemned the move but its concerns about the Somalia and Yemen ports is yet to be understood.