Africa intelligence"Moreover, the war in Yemen now threatens Somaliland. Iran has supplied – via Bossaso in Puntland – Yemen’s Houthi rebels with Russian SCUD missiles that put Somaliland within reach of the fighting in Yemen. Hargeisa is concerned that the Emirati troops stationed on its territory might be targeted by the belligerents on the other side of the Red Sea. But they are even more afraid of alienating the Houthis because Yemen is Somaliland’s second biggest trading partner after Ethiopia. It is even the primary source of dollars in Somaliland’s economy: Yemen buys 90 percent of Somaliland’s cattle, which it re-exports it to the Gulf states."
But good on Gaas for exporting weapons to houthis. He should remove the Yemeni consulate in garowe and replace it with an houthis military base. Next step is to negotiate with houthis. We let them operate in Puntland but in return they have to give us drones for us to airstrike Hargeisa and take SSC
