{"id":37363,"date":"2026-06-17T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37363"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:07:07","slug":"no-talks-to-establish-israeli-military-base-in-somaliland","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/no-talks-to-establish-israeli-military-base-in-somaliland\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No talks to establish Israeli military base in Somaliland&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">There is no Israeli \u200bmilitary presence in \u200cSomaliland and no talks for Israel to open \u200ba base there, \u200bSomaliland&#8217;s Defence Minister Mohamed \u2060Yusef Ali told \u200bReuters on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Speaking on \u200bthe sidelines of a business conference in Tel Aviv, \u200bhe said Israel \u200bwas training Somaliland&#8217;s military and \u200cpolice<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">He called reports that Israel was in negotiations to establish \u200ba \u200bmilitary \u2060base in Somaliland &#8220;rumours&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Israel recognised Somaliland as \u200ban independent state \u200blast \u2060December, a move Somalia rejected and termed \u2060a &#8220;deliberate \u200battack&#8221; on \u200bits sovereignty.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36956,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-37363","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"'There is no Israeli \u200bmilitary presence in \u200cSomaliland'","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37364,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37363\/revisions\/37364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}