UAE to end military training in Somalia after it seized $10m

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The UAE announced it will be ending its military training mission in Somalia after its soldiers were assaulted and nearly $10 million was seized in Mogadishu this month, Defense News reports.

The change in relations between the UAE and Somalia highlights the larger crisis in the Gulf, at the center of which is Qatar. Somalia — and the Horn of Africa — has been caught in the crosshairs.

Somalia’s government has seized three bags of money worth $10 million from a plane that landed in Mogadishu from United Arab Emirates, Voice of America reports, citing a source that says a UAE envoy was at the airport "to receive the money" when it was confiscated.

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