Tag: Abiy Ahmed

Analysis

Ethiopia Must Now Compete: President Cirro Departs for Addis After UAE Marathon as Congress Authorizes Hargeisa Office

Staff - October 14, 2025

HARGEISA – President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi "Cirro" of the Republic of Somaliland has departed for Addis Ababa on an official visit to Ethiopia, marking...

Opinion

Trump’s Geo-Transactional Effort to Resolve the GERD Dispute Between Ethiopia and Egypt Confronts the Energy–Water Dilemma

Staff - August 9, 2025

On June 20, former President Donald Trump claimed on his social media channel, Truth Social, that the massive Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was...

Analysis

Somaliland-Ethiopia MoU 2.0?: After Ankara, Why a Pact is Now Inevitable

Staff - July 11, 2025

The recent collapse of Turkish-led mediation between Ethiopia and Somalia has inadvertently proven the strategic indispensability of the Ethiopia-Somaliland MoU. Ankara's attempt to resolve...

Analysis

Somalia Under New Management: How Kampala Became Mogadishu’s New Capital

Staff - April 26, 2025

In a dramatic shift of regional power dynamics that has gone largely unnoticed by Western media, Somalia has effectively ceded significant control over its...

Editorial

Is Abiy’s Delusional Pursuit of Red Sea Access An Existential Threat to Somaliland?

Staff - October 18, 2023

The alarm bells are ringing as Ethiopia's unrelenting quest for port access raises the troubling specter of the annexation of Somaliland's strategic Zaila port....

News

What’s Behind the Renewed Interest from Somaliland’s Neighbors of Ethiopia and Djibouti?

Staff - January 29, 2022

The Republic of Somaliland is enjoying yet another string of high profile diplomatic successes in its own backyards of Djibouti and Ethiopia following the...

Ethiopia