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The withdrawal from the port city of Berbera by regional powers distracted by war, marks the end of an external system that managed the Horn of Africa—and the beginning of a deeper structural collapse. Berbera, Somaliland. Image credit Abdulkadir Hirabe via Shutterstock © 2024. 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