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Somalia offers US exclusive control of air bases, ports

somalia kismayu port traders

Somali traders load their lorries with imports at the Kismayo Sea Port on October 6, 2021.

Photo credit: Mary Wambui | Nation Media Group

By  Reuters

What you need to know:

  • Somalia offers US control of strategic air bases and ports
  • Offer could enhance US military presence in Horn of Africa
  • Somaliland opposes Somalia's offer, favors direct US engagement


Somalia is prepared to offer the United States exclusive control of strategic air bases and ports, its president said in a letter to President Donald Trump seen by Reuters on Friday.

In the March 16 letter, authenticated by a regional diplomat with knowledge of the matter, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said the assets included air bases in Balidogle and Berbera as well as the ports of Berbera and Bosaso.

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