Mogadishu (AFP) Feb 9, 2026<\/p>\n
Somalia Monday signed a defence agreement with Saudi Arabia, as the Horn of Africa becomes an arena for proxy wars between Gulf monarchies, with Abu Dhabi at loggerheads with Riyadh. <\/p>\n
The region, strategically located between the Indian Ocean and the Suez Canal on one of the world’s busiest trade routes… Mogadishu (AFP) Feb 9, 2026 Somalia Monday signed a defence agreement with Saudi Arabia, as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211204-somalia-signs-defence-agreement-with-saudi-arabia.jpg",600,500,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211204-somalia-signs-defence-agreement-with-saudi-arabia-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211204-somalia-signs-defence-agreement-with-saudi-arabia-300x250.jpg",300,250,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211204-somalia-signs-defence-agreement-with-saudi-arabia.jpg",600,500,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211204-somalia-signs-defence-agreement-with-saudi-arabia.jpg",600,500,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211204-somalia-signs-defence-agreement-with-saudi-arabia.jpg",600,500,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211204-somalia-signs-defence-agreement-with-saudi-arabia.jpg",600,500,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211204-somalia-signs-defence-agreement-with-saudi-arabia.jpg",600,500,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211204-somalia-signs-defence-agreement-with-saudi-arabia.jpg",600,500,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211204-somalia-signs-defence-agreement-with-saudi-arabia-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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