Siham Kamil Abdu

Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi Irro has traveled to Addis Ababa for his first official visit to Ethiopia since taking office nearly a year ago. The trip comes amid ongoing uncertainty over the fate of the controversial Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Somaliland and Ethiopia in early 2024.

Tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia have flared once again following a new exchange of accusations over the management of the Nile River and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The dispute, which has simmered for more than a decade, was reignited after recent flooding in northern Egypt displaced residents and fueled claims of unilateral water releases from Ethiopia’s newly inaugurated mega-dam.

Since 2007, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Somaliland have steadily deepened their bilateral relations, culminating in the signing of a Bilateral Protocol on February 26, 2020, in Taipei. This agreement established mutual representative offices, granting privileges equivalent to those accorded under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.