It's not unheard of for business interests to finance a breakaway state.
The breakaway state in the south has said it will attack planes and ships trying to supply the north.
On Sunday he was named president of the breakaway state, four years exactly after the south and north united.
Officials of the breakaway state in the south welcomed the proposal.
But the north has failed to capture Aden, the capital of the breakaway state.
Yet to date none of the Gulf countries has gone so far as to openly recognise the breakaway state.
The incidents were primarily in third world countries or breakaway states of the Soviet Union.
From 1968 to 1970, he served as a commander in the civil war against the breakaway state of Biafra.
The breakaway state is recognized only by Turkey, which invaded the island in 1974.
But there are dozens more breakaway states which are determined to be separate and independent.