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It is time to reconsider the predominant strategy in play on the continent for dealing with terrorism.
The time for fundamental political reforms in Sudan is now with the end of al-Bashir’s rule.
It would be a mistake to ridicule what’s been achieved in the Horn of Africa, but obstacles remain.
Ethiopia’s recent upheavals could potentially destabilise the entire Horn of Africa.
A deal brokered by Ethiopia to develop the port at Berbera will have a ripple effect across the Horn of Africa.
The US Secretary of State’s mission to Africa will produce few benefits for the continent or for US-Africa relations.
Israel is deporting thousands of Eritrean asylum seekers to Rwanda, while in the US, many face being sent back to the country they fled.
The attack, in which more than 300 people were killed, comes as Somalia tries to put in place a new security pact.
The western media’s focus on events at home like the US elections and the UK Brexit referendum has come at the expense of reporting on the famine that’s unfolding in Africa.
Eritreans are at risk of severe malnutrition – but aid agencies struggle to access those in need.
The growing Arab military, political and religious influence is only the latest example of an external force taking hold in the Horn of Africa.
In Ethiopia, the US pushes the diffusion of individual freedoms and China jockeys for collective economic betterment. Both the US and China could lose out if chaos spreads in the Horn of Africa.
Many Ethiopians regard Castro as the man who saved their country. Somalis view him as the man who denied them the Greater Somalia re-union
The Crimea crisis has focused our attention on the vexed question of Europe’s energy supplies. To a great extent Europe depends on Russia for its oil and gas, which gives Vladimir Putin disproportionate…
We need to stop thinking about food security as an economic problem. Food security is largely discussed in terms of increasing demand pressures and worsening constraints on supply. These discussions miss…
2010 was the world’s hottest year on record, with global temperatures 0.53°C above the long-term (1961-1990) average. 2011 started with a strong La Niña (perhaps the strongest since 1917), something which…
While droughts are caused by weather – the failure of the rains – famines are invariably political. The current famine in southern Somalia should have come as no surprise. Aid agencies have been warning…
With the UN declaring famine in Somalia for the first time since 1992, and other countries in the Horn of Africa suffering critical food shortages, this already unstable region is facing devastation. Drought-stricken…
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Recognised Researcher, Imperial College London
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Researcher in Environmental Change, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Assistant Professor, Khalifa University
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Professor, Weber State University
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Associate Professor, History, La Trobe University
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Professor of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Researcher in the Food Security Program at the Centre for International Security Studies, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
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