When Israel became the only country to formally recognise the self-declared state of Somaliland, it prompted a run on the Israeli flag with little precedent in a Muslim society.
President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi had written to UN member states pleading Somaliland’s historic case for independence. After months of secret talks, Israel was the only one to respond with the answer he sought.
The outcome has given Israel a foothold on the Bab el-Mandeb strait, through which up to 14 per cent of global maritime trade flows, just as great power and Middle Eastern rivalry intensifies along Africa’s Red Sea coast and the Iran war threatens to spill over into the region.
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