{"id":1147,"date":"2026-02-20T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:28:41","slug":"former-somaliland-leader-concerned-deal-with-israel-for-recognition-may-be-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/former-somaliland-leader-concerned-deal-with-israel-for-recognition-may-be-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Somaliland leader concerned deal with Israel for recognition may be illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Country&#8217;s constitution prohibits any measure that undermines or harms Muslims, Muse Bihi Abdi <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Still-influential former Somaliland president Muse Bihi Abdi has demanded that the agreement with Israel that led to recognising the territory as an independent country be made public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignright is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Read more here \u2935\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WyZxa153JR\">https:\/\/t.co\/WyZxa153JR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiddleEastEye\/status\/2024812870374989962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdi said in a recorded video address that Somaliland&#8217;s constitution does not permit any action that contradicts Islamic principles, Middle East Eye reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe government has not yet disclosed what was agreed upon with Israel, and they are expected to do so,\u201d Abdi said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf it turns out that the agreement violates our constitution, harms any Muslim, or fails to equally serve our mutual interests, then we will speak out about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further emphasised that Somaliland\u2019s constitution strictly prohibits any measure that undermines Islam or harms Muslims.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdi, a former Somalia air force officer during the era of military rule, previously condemned Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza while serving in office, Middle East Eye reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Country&#8217;s constitution prohibits any measure that undermines or harms Muslims, Muse Bihi Abdi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15,187,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-1147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-muse-bihi-abdi","10":"tag-somaliland"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}