The Drivers and Risks of Ethiopia’s Historic Pact With Somaliland
January 10th, 2024
Courtesy of Stratfor RANE’s Worldview, analysis of the drivers and risks of Ethiopia’s historic pact with Somaliland: Ethiopia’s historical deal with Somaliland granting it commercial and military access to the port of Berbera is part of Addis Ababa’s ambition to reestablish a green-water navy, but the deal’s implementation will likely reshape the politics of the […]
Read more »Ethiopia Offers Airline Stake to Somaliland for Sea Access
January 2nd, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report that Ethiopia offered Somaliland a stake in Ethiopian Airlines in return for sea access: Agreement will give Somaliland stake in Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopia’s Hussein says details will be ironed out in a month Ethiopia signed a memorandum of understanding with Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, to gain access to the […]
Read more »Ethiopia Signs Pact to Use Somaliland’s Red Sea Port
January 1st, 2024
Courtesy of Reuters, a report on Ethiopian plans to use Somaliland’s Red Sea port: Landlocked Ethiopia signed an initial agreement with Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland on Monday to use its Red Sea port of Berbera, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office said. The Horn of Africa country currently relies on neighbouring Djibouti for most of […]
Read more »Somaliland: External Investment, Intensifying Internal Competition
March 4th, 2023
Via African Arguments, commentary on Somaliland and its drive to attract investment and economic growth: The de facto state of Somaliland has earned the reputation of an island of peace, democracy and stability in an otherwise tumultuous Horn of Africa region. Yet this narrative, carefully curated over more than three decades, threatens to come crashing […]
Read more »Somaliland’s Oil Find Could Reset The Regional Balance
February 18th, 2023
Via The Conversation, a report on how the presence of oil in Somaliland has raised the stakes in Somaliland’s claim for independence from Somalia as it holds the potential for a new stream of revenue for the semi-autonomous state: What is Somaliland’s hydrocarbon potential? In 2020, Norwegian seismic survey company, TGS, estimated that the Somali basin […]
Read more »Somaliland: Has Genel Energy Discovered Oil in Salaxley?
January 10th, 2023
Via Oil News Kenya, an article on Days after a war of words over the legality of Genel’s Energy license to explore in Somaliland one of the seven Federal Member States of Somalia (though largely autonomous with little or no control from Mogadishu) there are mixed messages by the regions Ministry of Energy and Minerals […]
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