Inside Somaliland: How Berbera Port is central to the Red Sea's power struggle

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DP World's investment in Berbera has been hamstrung by regional politics, but the UAE is deepening its military footprint in the historic entrepot Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi"Berbera is the heart of Somaliland," Jama Mohamed Ahmed, the commercial director of DP World in the Horn of Africa, tells me by way of introduction. We meet outside the glistening, reflective glass office building that is the UAE logistics giant's headquarters in the Horn of Africa, in a country only recognised by Israel