The port that history keeps returning to There is a port on the Gulf of Aden that empires keep finding indispensable. Berbera, on the coast of what is today Somaliland, has served for three centuries as a barometer of great-power ambition in the Horn of Africa – a place where the strategic calculations of distant capitals become legible in the physical infrastructure of docks, runways, and fuel depots. What has changed across those centuries is…
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