If you squint at the map, Somaliland looks like a sliver on the Horn of Africa. Look closer and you see leverage: a deep-water port at Berbera staring straight at the Bab el-Mandeb, the choke point where the Red Sea narrows and global trade squeezes through. That’s why President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro’s trip to … Continue reading Irro Comes to Washington: The Small Bet With Outsized Payoff