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Somaliland’s 30-year quest for recognition: could US interests make the difference?

More than three decades after unilaterally declaring independence from Somalia, Somaliland still seeks international recognition as a sovereign state. Despite a lack of formal acknowledgement, the breakaway state has built a relatively stable system of governance. This has drawn increasing interest from global powers, including the United States. As regional…

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Somaliland Votes Amid Horn Of Africa Tensions

Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia at the centre of a diplomatic storm, holds a presidential election on Wednesday at a tense moment in the Horn of Africa.

International Business Times

Somaliland To Vote Amid Horn Of Africa Tensions

Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia at the centre of a diplomatic storm, will hold a presidential election on Wednesday at a tense moment in the Horn of Africa.

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Egypt-Ethiopia hostilities are playing out in the Horn – the risk of new proxy wars is high

Egypt recently deepened its involvement in the war-weary Horn of Africa by arming Somalia and deploying its troops in the embattled country. To Ethiopia’s growing alarm, Egypt is also set to join the multinational force supporting the Somali army against the jihadist threat by al-Shabaab. Egypt’s potentially destabilising presence in…

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Somalia and Turkey are becoming firm allies – what’s behind this strategy

Turkey has ramped up its partnership with Somalia in recent months. It is helping Somalia defend its waters, and has signed a deal to explore for oil and gas off the east African nation’s coast.

The Conversation

Leaders Of Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia Meet Amid Regional Tensions

The leaders of Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia met for a three-way summit in Asmara on Thursday against a backdrop of heightened tensions in the Horn of Africa region.

International Business Times

Ethiopia is worried over a defense deal between Egypt and Somalia as tensions rise in Horn of Africa

Ethiopia is increasingly concerned over a defense deal signed earlier this month between Egypt and Somalia, two countries that Addis Ababa is embroiled in disputes with amid rising tensions in the Horn of Africa region

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Australian aid package for African humanitarian crises

The Australian government has announced $23 million to help vulnerable populations in the Horn of Africa through various humanitarian crises.

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Horn of Africa droughts: how a network of groundwater bores could help – study

The Horn of Africa recently suffered its worst drought in almost half a century, and its sixth failed rainfall season in a row.

The Conversation

Thirty-eight migrants found drowned after shipwreck off Djibouti

Thirty-eight bodies, including those of children, have been found after a shipwreck off the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, the UN's International Organisation for Migration said on Tuesday.

Radio France Internationale

Nikki Haley's Father Recovers, Husband Safe While Deployed

Learn about Nikki Haley's family, including her father's recent hospitalization and her husband's military deployment in the Horn of Africa.

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Ethiopia's deal with Somaliland upends regional dynamics, risking strife across the Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa ushered in the new year with news of a deal that would ensure that diplomatic relations in the region got off to a bumpy start in 2024. Ethiopia, it was announced on Jan. 1, had signed a memorandum of understanding with the breakaway region of Somaliland,…

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OPINION - Somaliland is my home country — Britain has a moral duty to recognise it

History was being made in the Horn of Africa, just at the point last week when many of us were contemplating what our new year resolutions would be.

Evening Standard

Heat records and climate accords: How did the environment fare in 2023?

From drought in Spain to floods in the Horn of Africa and wildfires in Canada, 2023 was marked by some alarming environmental disasters. However, it wasn't all bad news – the past few months have seen some significant advances in the fight against climate change.

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Hijacked cargo ship has moved towards Somalia, says EU naval force

The European Union's maritime security force says it’s monitoring a Maltese-flagged merchant ship that was hijacked last week in the Arabian Sea off the Horn of Africa.

Al Jazeera

First the drought, then flood: Climate crisis compounds woes for Somalis

The shocks from a relentless climate crisis have upended the lives of millions in Somalia and the Horn of Africa region.

France 24

Kenya approves police deployment mission in Haiti despite court order

In tonight's edition: Kenyan lawmakers try to sidestep court orders delaying plans for a police deployment to Haiti. More than 100 people, including 16 children, have died and over 700,000 forced out of their homes because of flash flooding in the Horn of Africa. Africa Tech Festival, the continent’s biggest…

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Ethiopia's Abiy takes a page from Russia, China in asserting the right to restore historical claim to strategic waters

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed claimed on Oct. 13, 2023, that his landlocked country has a right to demand maritime access to a Red Sea port from its neighbors in the Horn of Africa – first through diplomatic means, he said, or by force if necessary.

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Landlocked Ethiopia wants better sea access: a port deal with neighbours could benefit the region

Ethiopia’s access to the coast has occupied the minds of the country’s rulers since time immemorial. This is because being landlocked undermines Ethiopia’s ability to grow its economy, develop its military (navy force) and exert influence across the Horn of Africa.

The Week

The wild magic of Socotra

A lonely island in the Arabian Sea some 150 miles off the Horn of Africa, Socotra figures in ancient texts as a place of mystery and enchantment. It seems Greek and Arab sailors once spoke of it as an earthly paradise, perfumed with frankincense and bristling with magical trees.

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‘They are overlooked by everybody’: elders in Ethiopia bear brunt of the climate crisis

With their cattle killed by five years of drought, and aid agencies focused on children and mothers, older people in the Horn of Africa are facing terrible malnutrition

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Q&A with Ludovic Slimak, the archeologist who wants to rewrite the history of early humans in Europe

The French archaeologist Ludovic Slimak has spent the past 30 years rummaging fields and caves from the Horn of Africa to the Artic Circle, and, of course, his beloved Rhône Valley in France. For the past year and a half, his team of 45 researchers have been on a roll,…

The Conversation

Ethiopia's musicians fled the country after the 1974 revolution - how their culture lives on

The overthrow of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 led to violent conflict that had a particularly heavy impact on musicians. Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora is the first study of the forced migration of musicians out of the Horn of…

Al Jazeera

UN conference pledges fall short of $7bn goal for Horn of Africa

The 2.4bn raised was less than the $7bn the UN says is needed to provide help to millions at risk in the region.

The Independent UK

US announces $524 million in new aid for Horn of Africa drought, climate crisis

The United States has announced $524 million in additional humanitarian aid for the Horn of Africa that aims to put a spotlight on the extreme effects of climate change and the worst drought in the region in 40 years

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