In the small cafes along Maka Al Mukarrama Road in restless Mogadishu, politics is as much a part of daily life as sweet Shaah tea and football debates.
Lately, one question keeps resurfacing: what happens now that Israel has recognised Somaliland, a breakaway region that has existed in diplomatic limbo for more than three decades?
For many experts in the region, the timing feels like a risky move that could drag the Horn of Africa deeper into Middle Eastern struggles.
For Somalia itself, a strategically located country of 18 million people with unstable borders and unfinished wars, the bigger anxiety is precedent now that a taboo has been br
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