[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Horn of Africa in recent years has emerged as a theater of growing geopolitical competition, as world great powers are rushing to entrench their interests in a region that is so vital to world security as well as economic stability. As the area struggles with instability, terrorism, and proxy competitions for sway, the US recognition of Somaliland provides a welcome chance to reshape the geopolitical realities within the Horn of Africa, with enormous strategic, economic, and security benefits.