Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said this week that water security is Egypt’s first and most important existential priority, ...

Recognizing Somaliland is more than a moral imperative for the United States. It is also a strategic opportunity.

"The relationship between Somalia and Ethiopia, that is their business. We are minding our own business," Somaliland's special envoy to the African Union, Abdulahi Mohammud, told DW.

Under the Somaliland deal, Ethiopia will take a 50-year lease of the Berbera Port, affording Addis Ababa 20km (12.5 miles) of the Red Sea coastline for commercial marine operations and a naval base.

In the fallout of Somaliland’s January 2024 tentative port deal with Ethiopia, several countries and blocs such as the United States, Egypt, AU, and EU called for calm in the region and for ...

Last week, a US Congressman introduced the ‘Somaliland Independence Act’ to congress, potentially bringing Washington one ...

If, as Somaliland said, Ethiopia has agreed to recognise it at some point, it would have a profound impact on the Horn of Africa region. Why does Ethiopia want the deal?

General Michael Langley, chief of US military operations in Africa, was in Addis Ababa on Friday for a meeting with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed that reportedly ...

12/16/2024 December 16, 2024. Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland says its deal to give Ethiopia access to the Red Sea in exchange for recognition as an independent state still stands.

If, as Somaliland said, Ethiopia has agreed to recognise it at some point, it would have a profound impact on the Horn of Africa region. Why does Ethiopia want the deal?