Word: berbera
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those bases will presumably be the huge Soviet-built naval installation at Berbera on the Gulf of Aden, about 625 miles north of the Somali capital of Mogadishu. In 1977 Somalia's mercurial President Mohamed Siad Barre threw out several thousand of Moscow's advisers after the Kremlin opted for neighboring Ethiopia as its principal client on the Horn of Africa. Ironically, the problem that broke up the Soviet-Somali alliance could also inhibit the budding military cooperation between Washington and Mogadishu. That issue is Somalia's continued support for the Western Somali Liberation Front (W.S.L.F.), which...
...Though nominally nonaligned, India tilted toward Moscow after Indira Gandhi signed a friendship treaty with the Soviet Union in 1971. So far, in her second rise to power, Gandhi insists that India will remain genuinely nonaligned. Somalia brusquely expelled the Soviets from its huge missile and naval base at Berbera in 1977 after Moscow backed Ethiopia in the Ogaden...