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The Horn Of Africa States: The Root Cause Of Its Problems – OpEd

European colonial intervention in the nineteenth/twentieth century, involving the creation of the current country infrastructure of the region,...

06.02.2025 3

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: Somalia And Possibilities Of A MICE Industry – OpEd

Somalia is the easternmost country of Africa jutting into the Somali Sea (the northern Indian Ocean). Its land space is

02.02.2025 3

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: War, Peace, And Stability (Part II) – OpEd

The title of an article in Addis Insight on the 28th of January 2025 drew my attention. It was entitled

30.01.2025 6

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: Wrong Friends And Wrong Foes – OpEd

The Horn of Africa States (HAS) region is one complex regional economic and security apparatus. On the one hand, the

28.01.2025 5

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The India Ties – OpEd

The Horn of Africa States and India have a long history together although this is not talked about much. It

26.01.2025 3

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Strategic Dynamics Of Somalia – OpEd

Somalia’s geostrategic location will continue to attract the attention of world leaders, more so the powerful countries of the USA,

23.01.2025 3

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: Upcoming Visit Of President Erdogan To Region – OpEd

The Horn of Africa States region continues its traditional presence in the international media, with major, middle and regional powers

20.01.2025 8

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: Implications Of Visit Of Somalia’s President To Ethiopia – OpEd

It is a long journey from the accusation of President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud in February 2024 during the Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of...

13.01.2025 10

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Pains Of The Afar People – OpEd

They say Africa is splitting along the Great East African Rift valley. The ongoing volcanic activities in the Afar region

12.01.2025 6

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: A Somali Season – OpEd

Could there ever be a Somali Spring or a Somali Summer or a Somali Autumn or a Somali Winter? Whichever season they select, there is bound to be,...

26.12.2024 4

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Emerging Somalia Foreign Policy – OpEd

Somalia is a founding member of the African Union (the “AU”), Intergovernmental Authority on Development (“IGAD”), and the Organization of Islamic...

23.12.2024 2

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: Economic Integration – OpEd

We have been discussing the issue of economic integration as a solution for the Horn of Africa States region for years now. It is interesting to...

22.12.2024 4

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: An Ethio-Somali Rapprochement – OpEd

December 11th, 2024, was another historic day for the Horn of Africa States region. It was the day the Ankara Declaration was announced by the...

16.12.2024 10

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: Somalis Know – OpEd

Somalia was a self-sufficient country in food until at least the late 1970s, when intervention of the IMF and the World Bank in the early 1980s...

15.12.2024 3

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Need For Change Leadership – OpEd

The Horn of Africa States region is a resource rich region but is devoid of visionary leadership. Many of the region’s leadership have, indeed,...

05.12.2024 3

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Turkey Page (Part IV) – OpEd

There is generally a cyclical nature in the history of nations and countries. It is kind of a pattern, they say, that repeats itself over periods,...

03.12.2024 4

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: International Trade And The Region – OpEd

As no person was ever able to meet all his needs alone, there was always an exchange of goods and services throughout most of human history....

02.12.2024 5

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: A Loya Ado To Ras Kiamboni Railway – OpEd

This is just a dream, but it could also be converted to a reality – a railway from Loya Ado in Northwest Somalia, bordering Djibouti to Ras...

25.11.2024 3

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Challenges Of Financial Realignments – OpEd

In a Visual Capitalist report of September 17th, 2024, it was noted that the US Dollar dominates the world reserve currencies at 59%. It is...

24.11.2024 30

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Potential Of Oil And Gas In Regional Integration (Part IV) – OpEd

In the Horn of Africa States region, conflicts and economic challenges still continue, The region remains poor, and its population keeps growing at...

20.11.2024 4

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Turkey Page (Part III) – OpEd

The economic history of Africa is as old as the first people of mankind. The economy of the continent moved from hunter gathering to agriculture (...

14.11.2024 2

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: President Trump’s Re-Election And The Region – OpEd

The Horn of Africa States region has been a significant geopolitical battleground on the world stage since the opening of the Suez Canal in the...

07.11.2024 1

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Region’s Prospects – OpEd

A little over a century ago, the region was always a net exporter o f goods and services to the outside world. Today, it is a net importer of most...

06.11.2024 2

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: A Resource Rich Region – OpEd

When discussing the economies of the Horn of Africa States region, as is the case with the rest of Africa, almost all analysts always talk in terms...

04.11.2024 2

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: There Is No Need For AUSSOM – OpEd

A seventeen-year-old operation which has not achieved its goal can only be considered a total failure, which by all standards and common sense,...

24.10.2024 2

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Turkey Page – OpEd

The geo-strategic location of the Horn of Africa States always comes to mind when writing about the region. It is not strange and its is not a...

21.10.2024 3

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: A Regional Block To Assure Peace And Stability – OpEd

The Indian Ocean was always an ocean of communication, trade and human activity from times immemorial. It connected Africa to Asia and further to...

18.10.2024 3

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Continuing Foreign Exchange Crisis In Ethiopia – OpEd

Earlier in the year and more specifically on July 28th July 2024, Ethiopia made a historic move. It introduced a new macroeconomic reform process,...

16.10.2024 3

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Trappings Of Power In The Region – OpEd

There were strong leaders in the past and throughout history but not necessarily great leaders. Some of them built nations and/or empires but many...

14.10.2024 2

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Only Possibility For An Access To A Sea – OpEd

Ethiopia’s quest for an access to a sea has been the talk of the Horn of Africa States over the past year. This has caused relations between the...

13.10.2024 6

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Perils Of Strategic Errors (Part II) – OpEd

There is a fear among all Ethiopians and many pundits outside Ethiopia that the country is in danger of disintegrating from within, let alone from...

11.10.2024 4

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Teetering Ethiopian Economy – OpEd

Ethiopia stepped into a destructive path in 2020 when it started a war with itself. Inter-state wars are often reported to negatively affect...

08.10.2024 1

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Dynamics Of The Cold War Never Left The Region – OpEd

The Horn of Africa States is an important junction in world affairs and this pivots to its vital linkage in world shipping and hence trade and...

07.10.2024 2

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Perils Of Strategic Errors (Part I) – OpEd

In my article of February 2, 2024, entitled “The Perils of Haste” and published in Eurasia Review, I noted that, “The region needs to address the...

25.09.2024 3

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa: The Years Ahead – OpEd

This is not intended to be like a seers saying but an attempt should always be made to predict what the future holds for the region. It is a...

24.09.2024 2

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Resources Are A Blessing And Not A Curse – OpEd

I often read that Africa’s resources are a curse to the continent and not a blessing. This is a frightening description of the resources of the...

23.09.2024 1

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Security Perils And The Need For New Peace Initiatives – OpEd

The Horn of Africa States seems to be falling into a new trap, engineered from beyond the region and which will only cause the region to endure...

19.09.2024 1

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Defense Of Sovereignty – OpEd

The Horn Africa waters are in the news lately not because of their life-giving abilities but because of the tensions they have caused among the...

18.09.2024 1

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: A Different Dimension To The Conflicts In The Region – OpEd

Ethiopia is administratively organized into twelve ethnic-based states and they are the Afar, the Amhara, the Benishangul-Gumuz, the Gambela, the...

12.09.2024 2

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: Making Peace And Not Wars – OpEd

David G. Haglund through an article edited by Encyclopedia Britannica explains that “an alliance in international relations means an agreement...

10.09.2024 2

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: Misguided Investments In The Region – OpEd

The world knows that the Red Sea and hence its littoral countries on both banks, thereof, are important and form part of the critical elements for...

07.09.2024 4

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: Investing In Development And Better Governance – OpEd

The region’s future as usual remains conflicted, confused and uncertain. In the past, at least, Ethiopia was considered stable. Today, however,...

04.09.2024 2

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The War Narrative – OpEd

The current brand of talks and narrative in the region remains to be that of war. Is that a new phenomenon or is this just a continuation of the...

02.09.2024 2

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Resilience Of The Somali Shilling – OpEd

The Somali Shilling shortened as “SOS” was created by the Somali Republic as the official currency of Somalia in 1962, but its debut goes back some...

02.09.2024 3

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn of Africa States And The Region’s Candidate: Harris Or Trump? – OpEd

Americans vote for their presidents with respect to American issues, not really much on matters related to foreign issues, and the Horn of Africa...

01.09.2024 1

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Absence Of Reason And Logic In The Region – OpEd

Long before the advent of the current leaderships, there was a loss of reason and logic in the region. Somalia had a brief exposure to democratic...

29.08.2024 2

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Region’s Global Diaspora (Part II) – OpEd

About eight months ago, on December 16th, 2023, I wrote on the subject matter in an article published on Eurasiareview.com and noted that the Horn...

24.08.2024 3

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: The Obsession With Guns – OpEd

The quest for peace and tranquility in the Horn of Africa States region is an elusive proposition. It is a region where men of politics only...

22.08.2024 10

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The Horn Of Africa States: When Ethiopia Went Wrong – OpEd

Somalis are generally nationalistic, much like any other people. They love their lands, seas, and spaces. But in every country there is always the...

20.08.2024 10

Dr. Suleiman Walhad

The World Of Islamic Finance – OpEd

Some fifty years ago there was generally no talk of Islamic banking and finance. The industry was just born to meet the needs of Muslims who were...

17.08.2024 1

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