Connected Corridors, Converging Power - Somaliland's Rise As Red Sea's Most Contested Node

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, Bab el-Mandeb, Red Sea, and Eastern Mediterranean are no longer separate theatres. They have fused into one geopolitical system in which a single vulnerable node can cascade across the entire chain: what happens in Mogadishu now affects maritime insurance in London, energy routing in Mumbai, and port calculations in Abu Dhabi. And what happens in Berbera is now central to the calculations of every major power with interests in the Indian Ocean.