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Dr. Suleiman WalhadEurasia Review |
Key Takeaways: “A banker without reliable information is a pilot flying through fog. An accountant helps turn on the radar.”
Key Takeaways: There is an old saying that “geography is destiny.” If that is true, then the Horn region has
Key Takeaways: If banks were judged solely by the size of their balance sheets, attracting foreign investment would be relatively
Key Takeaways: There is an old saying often attributed to economists, which says that “If you think infrastructure is expensive,
Key Takeaways: War is often described as expensive, but that hardly captures the reality. It drains economies, shakes financial markets,
Key Takeaways: The Horn of Africa States region has a branding problem! Mention the region in most boardrooms in London,
Key Takeaways: A popular saying in finance is that “banking is the art of making money with other people’s money.”
Key Takeaways If you ask a trader in Hargeisa, a coffee exporter in Addis Ababa, a port operator in Djibouti,
Key Takeaways For much of the past four decades, the Horn of Africa States region has been portrayed as a
Key Takeaways The banking sectors of the Horn of Africa States reveal a deep structural divergence. As some nations embrace
Key Takeaways The financial policy frameworks of many Horn of Africa states have, for decades, been shaped by international development
Key Takeaways: The central weakness in the economic strategy of many Horn of Africa states is not the absence of
Key Takeaways The Horn of Africa States has everything an economist could ask for. It has fertile agricultural land, one
Key Takeaways The Horn of Africa States region occupies one of the world’s most strategic locations. Bordering the Red Sea
Somalia’s story is often told as one of collapse, conflict, and lawlessness, but this narrative captures only a fragment of
The shift from a culture of force to a culture of ideas has been unfolding over thousands of years, yet
For much of the historical relations between Canada and Africa, the continent remained largely off the radar for Canadian investors,
The year 2026 marks a decisive yet deeply traditional phase in the political trajectory of the Horn of Africa States
The Horn of Africa States region (HAS) is entering a phase of transformation long considered unlikely, marked most visibly by
The West Asian war is no longer a distant geopolitical issue in the Horn of Africa States region (HAS). It
Somalia was in the news for decades now, not for what it used to be or for what it can
Somalia had UN envoys representing the UN Secretary General since the collapse of the State in 1991 and they are
For decades, the lands of the Horn of Africa States region have been kept in a state of artificial dormancy,
The Horn of Africa States today stands at a critical crossroads where the shadows of chronic instability and a bright
Africa needs to shift from resource curse which have marked it for so long to a resource blessing. This requires
he Horn of Africa States (HAS), comprising Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti—often referred to as the SEED countries for their status as the
The East African Community (EAC) stands at a critical crossroads, evolving from a once-cohesive regional bloc of culturally linked neighbors
This is a continuation of my OpEd article “Why the 1961 Framework is Somalia’s Path to True Sovereignty” in Eurasia
True transformation of nations begins within the borders of individual nations instead of through pipedreams of a unified, continent-wide agendas
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning work “The Prize,” and subsequent analysis, Daniel Yergin defines oil as the central driver of the 20th and 21st
he closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the prolonged volatility in the Red Sea have fundamentally rewritten the global
Throughout history and until the nineteenth century, the identity of the Somali people was defined not by the shifting sands
The “Somali clan virus” is a metaphorical disease that has proven more resilient than any biological pathogen, primarily because it
The recent constitutional amendments in Somalia, ratified by the Federal Parliament on March 4, 2026, represent one of the most
For over three decades, Somalia has been adrift in a sea of “provisional” governance and foreign-inspired political experiments. Since the
The escalating conflict in West Asia pitting Iran against Israel, the United States, and a wary Arab world, has effectively
For decades, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman, stood as the
Somalia erred by joining the East Africa Community (Read my article: How Somalia Erred Joining the EAC dated November 26,
Despite possessing some of the world’s richest mineral and natural resource endowments, Africa remains the poorest continent by many development
The African Union (the ‘AU’) serves as a symbol of continental unity and aspiration. It is a forum where African
The Horn of Africa States region is marked by continuing violence, poverty, and political stagnation and manipulation by a few,
In the Horn of Africa States region, the banking and financial sector operates within a complex and frequently fragile environment,
A continuing combined impact of falling foreign direct investment (FDI) and sustained capital outflows poses a structural challenge for Africa
The region combines proximity to major shipping lanes with direct access to African hinterlands of a large scale. Its extensive
The Suez Canal/Red Sea/Gulf of Aden corridor linking the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean constitutes one of the world’s most
The Horn of Africa States region always presents itself as a paradox for frontier investors, adept at mastering rich but
Somalia’s unity and/or fragmentation has come to focus lately and in particular with respect to the recognition of a region,
The coming year of 2026 appears to maintain the same off-balance state of the region as in previous years. This
The geopolitical competition over the Horn of Africa States continues to grow. The country most affected apparently is Somalia, which
About fifteen years ago, a federal infrastructure was proposed and put into place in Somalia in 2012 to decentralize authority
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