Last summer, after more than two years of terrible fighting, it looked like the United States might finally have landed on a viable approach for ending the civil war in Sudan. Since the conflict began ...
Analysis - On 26 December 2025 Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel announced the official recognition of Somaliland by his government.
The Republic of Somaliland is in the Horn of Africa, along the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden. Its borders are Djibouti ...
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US trashed Somalia, can we really scold its people for coming here?

Trump’s vitriol against the North African state dates back long before the current aid scandal but in the context of recent history, it makes little sense.
Few geopolitical questions in the Horn of Africa carry as much symbolic and strategic weight as Ethiopia’s demand for access to the sea. Landlocked since ...
Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud arrives in Turkey for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The discussions focus on deepening cooperation, Somalia’s fight against terrorism, ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar visited Somaliland on Tuesday on a trip that was denounced by Somalia, 10 days after ...
The war in Sudan is no longer confined within its borders or limited to the edges of the Blue Nile region. Signs are emerging of a new and more dangerous phase, as Sudanese intelligence reports ...
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland has triggered nationwide protests in Somalia and urgent diplomatic talks, as the Somali government warns the move threatens its territorial integrity and stability ...
“When the enemy entered, we fled. Those who escaped, escaped; those who died, died. We walked over corpses. We were lucky to escape.” Shushay and her six children were among the three million people ...
Opinion - Almost two years to the day when Ethiopia signed the controversial MoU with Somaliland, the state of Israel officially recognized the Republic of Somaliland as a sovereign state. Both the ...