Continuing Battle for Recognition in the Horn of Africa: Israel, Somaliland, and Türkiye at a Geopolitical Crossroads
The Horn of Africa has long lived in the shadows of global power politics, its crises often framed as local...
Somaliland
What Israel-Somaliland’s Recognition/Relationship Means: the Origin, Risk and Human Cost of a Diplomatic Earthquake
By late December 2025, a long-gestating, discreet relationship burst into the open. Israel’s formal recognition of Somaliland as an independent...
Somaliland Rejects Somalia’s E-Visa, Extending Rift Over Sovereignty and Control
Into Hargeisa, effective from November 10, 2025, travelers carrying Somalia’s electronic visa will no longer be allowed entry into Somaliland,...
Somaliland Seeks U.S. Backing for Sovereignty Recognition
For over three decades, the self-declared Republic of Somaliland has operated as a functioning democracy with its own institutions, currency...
