UN Security Council
The UN Security Council has convened an emergency session over Israel's controversial recognition of Somaliland as an independent state. Twenty-one mostly Muslim countries warn of serious consequences for stability in the Horn of Africa. The recognition came just days before Somalia assumes the Council's rotating presidency.
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Cairo has intensified diplomatic contacts with Arab and Islamic states to rally support for the US draft resolution on Gaza at the UN Security Council. The effort comes amid worsening humanitarian conditions in Gaza due to harsh winter storms affecting 1.5 million displaced people on the 36th day of a fragile ceasefire. Egyptian sources described it as a coordinated regional campaign to secure the resolution's passage or at least broad international backing.