AU Rejects Recognition of Somaliland, Reaffirms Support for Somalia's Territorial Integrity

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Recognition by Israel could encourage other nations to follow suit, increasing the region's diplomatic credentials and access to international markets.
63% : Yesterday,Israel became the first country to formally recognise Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent nation.
63% : Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel intended to immediately expand cooperation in agriculture, health, and technology.
43% : The statement comes amid renewed regional and international debate over Somaliland's status, more than three decades after it declared independence from Somalia in 1991 a move that has never been recognised by the African Union or the United Nations.
39% : The decision has been condemned by the foreign ministers of Somalia, Egypt, Turkey and Djibouti, who in a statement affirmed their "total rejection" of Israel's announcement.
33% : Somalia's prime minister, Hamza Abdi Barre, said his country categorically and unequivocally rejected what he called a deliberate attack by Israel on its sovereignty.

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