{"id":20609,"date":"2026-01-13T11:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/20609\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:26:07","slug":"competition-in-the-horn-of-africa-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/20609\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition in the Horn of Africa Heats Up"},"content":{"rendered":"


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On Dec. 26, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that his country would officially recognize Somaliland, the breakaway region of Somalia, as a sovereign nation. The first of its kind, the move may appear relatively inconsequential: Somaliland is a small, otherwise unrecognized area of roughly 6 million people that has existed outside the formal international [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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