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2025-08-02 Africa Horn
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Somaliland offers US naval base access, rare earth deal in bid for recognition
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[ShbelleMedia] Somaliland
 ...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells....
has offered the United States the opportunity to establish a naval base along its coast near the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait and proposed a rare earth minerals deal, in a bid to gain formal recognition as an independent state, according to a report published by Bloomberg.
The proposal, made by President Abdirahman Cirro, comes amid Somaliland’s intensified push to strengthen ties with Washington and the Trump administration, which continues to recognize Somaliland as part of Somalia.
Somaliland, a self-declared republic, claims to have unilaterally broken away from Somalia in 1991, and is seeking to leverage its geostrategic location and critical mineral resources to secure international legitimacy.
The Bab al-Mandab Strait, a chokepoint between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, is vital to global shipping and maritime security. The coast in northern Somalia, which stretches along the Gulf of Aden, offers strategic value amid growing geopolitical competition in the region.
In addition to the naval base proposal, Somaliland has offered access to rare earth minerals essential to high-tech industries—materials increasingly sought after by Western powers looking to diversify supply chains away from China.
Though no formal agreement has yet been reached, the offer underscores Somaliland’s evolving foreign policy and its efforts to court global allies.
The unrecognized state has already deepened ties with the United Arab Emirates, which operates a military and commercial port in the coastal city of Berbera.
The move comes at a time of heightened regional tension in the Horn of Africa, with growing interest from global powers in the Red Sea corridor.
Somaliland’s leadership sees engagement with Washington as critical to its long-standing goal of breaking diplomatic isolation.
Despite decades of political stability, democratic elections, and functioning institutions, Somaliland remains internationally unrecognized, with the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
and the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
continuing to treat it as part of Somalia.
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Posted by trailing wife 2025-08-02 00:00||
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