This is what “recognition” looks like in practice: foreign powers redrawing borders from afar and turning local grievances into proxy battlefields. Israel’s move doesn’t advance peace or self-determination—it pours gasoline on unresolved clan politics around one of the world’s most strategic chokepoints. Awdal isn’t a chess square, and the Horn of Africa doesn’t need another externally engineered fracture sold as stability.
This is what “recognition” looks like in practice: foreign powers redrawing borders from afar and turning local grievances into proxy battlefields. Israel’s move doesn’t advance peace or self-determination—it pours gasoline on unresolved clan politics around one of the world’s most strategic chokepoints. Awdal isn’t a chess square, and the Horn of Africa doesn’t need another externally engineered fracture sold as stability.
Thanks for reporting on issues that others ignore. A story like this would benefit from a map.