Mogadishu Trapped, Cairo Panics: The Horn Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase. In just twenty-four hours, the geopolitical scaffolding that anchored Somalia’s relations with the Gulf for...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Florida this week for a critical meeting with US President Donald Trump, seeking to convince him that diplomacy alone...
Why Somaliland Now Matters More Than Ever in the Red Sea Strategic Equation. Turkey’s expanding footprint in Somalia is often framed as humanitarian partnership or infrastructure...
Ankara’s multi‑billion‑dollar investment in Mogadishu provokes questions over transparency, influence and arms embargo compliance. Turkey’s deepening involvement in Somalia—spanning a $1.15 billion aid package, a sprawling new...
Leadership War, Institutional Intervention, and the Battle for Somaliland’s Opposition. A party built to govern is now fighting to survive. Kulmiye, Somaliland’s once-dominant political force, is...
A broken train line in Poland. Fires in Estonia. Balloons from Belarus. None of it is random — and all of it is costing Europe more...
China’s reported development of a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine—a critical piece of technology long monopolized by Western firms—may have implications far beyond commercial competition...
A U.S. political cartoon targeting Ilhan Omar has gone viral in Somalia and Somaliland, revealing how American domestic politics now shape perceptions and soft power in...
Rising Gulf Pressure, U.S. Policy Shifts, and Westminster’s Security Calculus Britain’s longstanding ambiguity toward the Muslim Brotherhood is entering an unprecedented phase of scrutiny, as Downing...
National Resilience and the Architecture of Peace: Somaliland’s Strategic Defense Against Destabilization A Comprehensive Analysis of Traditional Leadership and State Strategy in Maintaining Stability The recent,...
The Widening Rift Between Trump and Europe Is a Strategic Gift to Putin. The latest rupture in trans-Atlantic relations is unfolding at a moment of acute...
As Vladimir Putin stepped off his aircraft in New Delhi and into an embrace from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the moment crystallized India’s increasingly complex diplomatic...
Israeli politics has become a blur of overlapping dramas, each one eclipsing the last before the dust even settles. In a matter of days, the country...
CRISIS AVERTED: Somaliland Crisis De-escalates as President Irro Prioritizes Peace Over Politics. President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro’s abrupt cancellation of the Xeer Ise event marks one...
The deadly unrest in Borama has crossed the threshold from an internal security failure to a strategic crisis with international consequences. What began as a local...
Assab vs. Berbera: Ethiopia’s Search for a Viable Path Back to the Sea. Ethiopia’s renewed insistence on securing sovereign access to the Red Sea has reopened...
The clandestine encounter in Dubai between two of Somaliland’s most influential former presidents, Dahir Riyale Kahin and Muse Bihi Abdi—the country’s “colonels”—is far more consequential than...
