Somaliland’s Critical Minerals Offer To The US Might Move The Needle In Favour Of Recognition By Andrew Korybko This proposal could pique Trump 2.0’s attention and ultimately catalyse a regional US pivot. Bloomberg published an update late last month about Somaliland’s long-running… Read More ›
Horn Of Africa Gambit: The US Fuelling Tensions Between Somalia And Somaliland By Uriel Araujo Washington apparently cannot resist the temptation to turn disputed territories into military outposts. History warns us that such interventions rarely end well—least of all for the… Read More ›
Berbera’s And Bosaso’s Dual-Use Facilities Aren’t Somalia’s To Give To The US By Andrew Korybko Maintaining silence in response to this proposal like it has for over two weeks already if Semafor’s report is accurate would enable the US to keep… Read More ›
Five Takeaways From The Newly Signed Russian-Ethiopian Naval Cooperation Agreement By Andrew Korybko This development is much more newsworthy than casual observers might have thought. Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Vorobyev signed a naval cooperation agreement with landlocked Ethiopia last… Read More ›
The Ethio-Somali Rapprochement Is A Pleasant Surprise By Andrew Korybko It had hitherto appeared almost inevitable that a proxy war would soon be waged in Somalia between Ethiopia and Egypt due to all sides’ (those three’s, Eritrea’s, and Somaliland’s) seemingly unshakable… Read More ›
The Somalian President Is Pleading With Trump To Keep US Advisors And Aid By Andrew Korybko This suggests that he isn’t as confident in his supposed Egyptian and Eritrean allies’ support as he earlier pretended to be. Somalian President Hassan Sheikh… Read More ›
How Viable Is The Turkish-Brokered Ethiopian-Somalian Joint Declaration? By Andrew Korybko A lot depends on whether Ethiopia’s anti-terrorist troops will now be allowed to remain in Somalia next year; the relationship between the new Somaliland President and the Ethiopian Prime Minister;… Read More ›
Ethiopia’s Pledge To Peacefully Pursue Sea Access Shouldn’t Be Seen As A Sign Of Weakness By Andrew Korybko Ethiopia’s pursuit of sea access will be diplomatically driven, but it’ll resort to military means in self-defence if it’s attacked by the Asmara… Read More ›
Five Takeaways From The Asmara Summit By Andrew Korybko The group’s Egyptian ringleader is too broke to fund a regional war and could be deterred from significant involvement in any potential Eritrean-Somalian Hybrid War on Ethiopia by its Emirati creditor. The… Read More ›
Somalia Is Hellbent On Waging Hybrid War On Ethiopia By Andrew Korybko The whole Horn could become engulfed in conflict if this proxy war spirals out of control. Somalian Foreign Minister Ahmed Moalim Fiqi recently told local media that his country might back anti-government… Read More ›
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