Djibouti and Somaliland will strengthen cross-border cooperation

Djibouti and Somaliland will further strengthen their ties of cross-border cooperation, does on Thursday from official sources.

An agreement to this effect was signed on Wednesday between the Djiboutian Minister of the Interior, Hassan Omar Mohamed, and Somaliland Interior Minister, Ali Mohamed Waran Adee, a visit to Djibouti.

This agreement mainly involves the creation of a Djibouti-Somaliland border joint committee in charge of monitoring and enforcement of ministerial decisions, strengthening security cooperation in the fight against terrorism, the establishment of a device preventive and deterrent against the networks of smugglers of all kinds, and improving the movement of goods and people on both sides of the border between the two countries.

In a brief statement he made to the press after the signing of this agreement, the Somaliland Interior Minister said the importance of the agreement on cooperation against smuggling and especially terrorism .

Former British territory located in the northwest of Somalia, Somaliland, a self-proclaimed independent state in 1991, was not recognized by either ratifying indefinitely its African neighbors, nor by the international community. But remains an island of peace in a country ravaged by more than two decades of civil war.