Israel’s unilateral recognition of Somaliland risks regional order
A woman waves a flag as soldiers and other military personnel of Somaliland march past during an Independence Day celebration parade on May 18, 2016, in the capital, Hargeisa.
The Horn now sits inside a single Red Sea security corridor, shaped by Saudi, Egyptian, Turkish, and Emirati competition across Sudan, Yemen, and Somalia. In such a system, recognition functions as a regional signal, not a bilateral transaction. It carries downstream effects in an environment already burdened by maritime insecurity, regime survival and competing external alignments.
