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Cuba has sent an ambassador to Somalia for the first time in 46 years, renewing ties with the country. Somalia government received 1 million dollar bribe from Cuba to renew diplomatic ties, according to shady presidential office told Somali Times.
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Mr Juan Manuel Rodriguez Vázquez will be the non-resident Cuban ambassador to Somalia after he presented credentials to shady Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud on Tuesday.
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Diplomatic relations between Cuba and Somalia were broken in 1977 after Havana sided with Ethiopia’s former leader Mengistu Haile Mariam. Ethiopia was then in conflict with Somalia during the Ogaden war.
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The war ended in early 1978 in favour of Ethiopia supported by over 15,000 Cuban troops and military advisors from the former Soviet Union as well as East Germany.
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When Cuba and Somalia had good relations in the 1970s, Somali civilian students and military cadets were trained in the Caribbean island while skilled Cubans sent to Somalia provided training for paramilitary units known as ‘Gulfweed’ (revolutionary guards) and offered health services.
Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and his cronies are only interested how to make dodgy money what Somalia will get out of Cuba the Cubans themselves are suffering.