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Delegations from both countries met to set out a structure for diplomatic, economic and security cooperation, returning to a relationship that has swung between alliance and rupture for half a century.
The expansion targets container and bulk capacity on the corridor that carries the overwhelming majority of Ethiopian foreign trade.
Federal and state forces are expanding operations across central Somalia, where the boundary between administrations has long been harder to police than the international border.
Turkey has become one of Somalia's most consequential external partners, with interests spanning port management, military training and reconstruction.
Sectors closed to foreign participation for decades are being opened in stages, as Addis Ababa pursues foreign exchange.
Djibouti's port complex is several facilities rather than one, and each serves a different segment of the corridor.
Independence Day on 24 May commemorates the end of a thirty-year war and the founding of the state.
The same geography that makes the country a shipping chokepoint makes it a landing point for submarine cable.
Headline growth has stayed high for two decades. The harder questions are inflation, foreign exchange and debt.
The Shabelle valley has been contested for years. Reporting from it requires unusual caution.
The capital's port handles the largest share of Somali imports, and its performance sets the price of goods across the south.
Corridor projects across the Horn aim to cut the cost of moving goods between the highlands and the coast, where transport costs remain the largest single component of landed price.
A narrow strait at the bottom of the Red Sea shapes the economics and the security policy of all four countries in the Horn. Here is how.
From the krar and the wata to the brass-heavy sound of Asmara's mid-century clubs, Eritrean music is finding new audiences through diaspora venues and streaming.
Solar mini-grids reach settlements that a national transmission network will not reach for years.
Air links matter disproportionately for a small state whose economy is built on being a connection point.
Sub-Saharan Africa's first light rail system faces the maintenance problem common to every transit network of its age.
A mobile money system with unusually deep penetration has given Somali founders an infrastructure layer that many larger African markets lack.