What Can The Horn Of Africa Learn From The Moldovan-Ukrainian Land Swap Of 1999? By Andrew Korybko The Moldovan-Ukrainian land swap occurred one-quarter of a century ago in very different conditions, but the example of restoring a landlocked state’s historical access… Read More ›
Djibouti’s Plan To Offer Ethiopia Full Management Of A Port Is A Trap By Andrew Korybko Ethiopia would harm its own reputation in order to return to its lopsided dependence on Djibouti without alleviating the threat that Egypt poses in Somalia…. Read More ›
Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorist Troops Might Stay In Somalia Even If Mogadishu Demands Their Departure By Andrew Korybko Somalia is trying to become to Ethiopia what Ukraine is to Russia. Sputnik reported that Ethiopian Ministry Affairs spokesman Nebiya Tedla declared on Sunday that… Read More ›
Turkiye’s Mediation Between Ethiopia And Somalia Is Well-Intentioned But Will Likely Be Fruitless By Andrew Korybko The Somaliland issue has turned into a zero-sum dilemma with existential consequences for Ethiopia and Somalia. Turkiye mediated talks in Ankara between the Ethiopian and… Read More ›
Regional Divisions Are Widening In Somalia Over Mogadishu Wanting To Kick Out Ethiopian Troops By Andrew Korybko Somalia might once again “Balkanize” if its Southwest State and Jubaland withdraw recognition of the federal government in protest over this policy following Puntland’s… Read More ›
Somalia’s Intent To Expel Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorist Forces Exposes Its Dirty Agenda By Andrew Korybko Somalia has the right to conduct its foreign policy however it wants and to ask those who it invited into the country to leave, but the consequences… Read More ›
Paranoid Regional Containment Policies Are Fuelling Chaos In The Horn Of Africa By Andrew Korybko The indirect coordination between the Egyptian-led but Eritrean-founded coastal containment coalition and the US to destabilize Ethiopia represents an unprecedented threat to peace and multipolarity in… Read More ›
Puntland’s Refusal To Close The Ethiopian Consulate Exposes Mogadishu’s Impotence By Andrew Korybko The Federal Government of Somalia’s military toothlessness is responsible for its impotence, but instead of focusing on rectifying the former ahead of the foreseeable terrorist upsurge that’ll follow… Read More ›
Puntland’s Withdrawal From Somalia’s Federal System Creates A Dilemma For Mogadishu And Ankara By Andrew Korybko Mogadishu is pressured to react in a way that exerts the federal government’s writ over Puntland such as requesting its allies in Ankara to patrol… Read More ›
A Russian Warship’s First-Ever Docking In Eritrea Doesn’t Mean That A Naval Base Will Follow By Andrew Korybko It would of course serve Russia’s interests to have a reliable alternative to Sudan in the event that their naval base deal falls… Read More ›
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