LONDON (Reuters) - The United States and Britain have agreed to fund a counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen as part of stepped-up efforts to fight terrorism in Yemen and Somalia after an attack on a U.S.-bound plane, Britain said on Sunday.
Civil war and lawlessness have turned Yemen, the Arab world's poorest state, into a base for al Qaeda, U.S. officials say, while the al Qaeda-inspired militant group al Shabaab has taken control of large areas of south and central Somalia.
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