{"id":252831,"date":"2024-01-29T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T12:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=252831"},"modified":"2024-07-01T08:20:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T07:20:03","slug":"red-sea-politics-ethiopia-somalia-and-the-us-eu-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/red-sea-politics-ethiopia-somalia-and-the-us-eu-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sea Politics: Ethiopia, Somalia, and the US\/EU\/NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Map-Somaliland-plate-boundaries-and-rift-horn-africa.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-252833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Map-Somaliland-plate-boundaries-and-rift-horn-africa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Map-Somaliland-plate-boundaries-and-rift-horn-africa.png 845w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Map-Somaliland-plate-boundaries-and-rift-horn-africa-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Map-Somaliland-plate-boundaries-and-rift-horn-africa-768x364.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>An MOU pairing Ethiopia\u2019s Red Sea ambitions with Somaliland\u2019s secessionist aspirations heightens tensions in the Horn of Africa.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>17 Jan 2024 &#8211; <\/em>The world\u2019s eyes are now on the geostrategic Red Sea waterways where Yemen\u2019s Ansar Allah fighters have stopped Israeli and Israel-bound ships from passing. Other regional tensions have come into play since Ethiopia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Somaliland, a secessionist state within Somalia that has claimed its independence since 1991. Given the geostrategic importance of the Red Sea, the US\/EU\/NATO are no doubt involved behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to Somali Kenyan scholar Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad about Red Sea politics and the MOU.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blackagendareport.com\/red-sea-politics-ethiopia-somalia-and-useunato\" >TO CONTINUE READING PLEASE Go to Original &#8211; blackagendareport.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 Jan 2024 &#8211; An MOU pairing Ethiopia\u2019s Red Sea ambitions with Somaliland\u2019s secessionist aspirations heightens tensions in the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":110030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[2249,1268,87,865,2444,2015,88,91,3196,1967,70,481,174],"class_list":["post-252831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-ethiopia","tag-european-union","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-horn-of-africa","tag-houthi","tag-israel","tag-nato","tag-red-sea","tag-somalia","tag-usa","tag-warfare","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252835,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252831\/revisions\/252835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}