{"id":222955,"date":"2026-01-06T06:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/222955\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:02:06","slug":"the-take-what-does-israels-recognition-of-somaliland-mean-for-the-region-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/222955\/","title":{"rendered":"The Take: What does Israel\u2019s recognition of Somaliland mean for the region? | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PodcastPodcast,  The Take<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">Israel\u2019s recognition of Somaliland pulls the breakaway territory into a larger regional power struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 6 Jan 20266 Jan 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>Israel has become the first country in the world to recognise the breakaway region of Somaliland since it declared independence in 1991. What does the move mean for regional tensions around the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, and what will aligning with Israel mean for Somaliland?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode:<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 2 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>Episode credits:<\/p>\n<p>This episode was produced by Tracie Hunte, Sar\u00ed el-Khalili, and Melanie Marich, with Fatima Shafiq, Farhan Rafid, Tamara Khandaker, and our guest host, Kevin Hirten. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz and Kylene Kiang.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad Al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take\u2019s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera\u2019s head of audio.<\/p>\n<p>Connect with us:<\/p>\n<p>@AJEPodcasts on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEPodcasts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ajepodcasts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJEPodcasts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLzGHKb8i9vTwjZkiFu6LhzsLUKFkYO60I\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PodcastPodcast, The Take Israel\u2019s recognition of Somaliland pulls the breakaway territory into a larger regional power struggle. Published&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1911,42,43,75037,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-222955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-somalia","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}