Berbera Port Deal: Uproar In The Horn Of Africa – OpEd

In the early start of 2024, the tension in the Horn of Africa escalated since Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a deal with President Muse Bihi Abdi of Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia to use its Red Sea port of Berbera.

Over Somaliland’s 50-year lease of a Berbera port to Ethiopia, anger has grown in...