Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia are caught in a conflict in a country that was supposed to provide them refuge.
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The Ukraine crisis is significantly increasing political stress and potential conflict throughout Africa.
The origins of Ethiopia’s food crisis can be traced to a bitter feud between Eritrean and Tigrayan liberation fighters.
The resolution is not legally binding, but is an expression of the views of the UN membership.
The war in Tigray appears to have boosted Eritrea’s efforts at regional pre-eminence. But it could backfire.
Prevailing political attitudes, security actors, alliances and geopolitics differ starkly from the final days of the hated Ethiopian military regime.
Globally, about 1 million deaths annually are related to exposure to second-hand smoke. Thirteen African countries have implemented comprehensive smoke-free bans.
Domestic and geopolitical factors mean that the Ethiopian conflict has enough fuel to burn for some time.
International law bars nations from causing environmental harms in other states. Should that include sending thousands of refugees over the border in search of food, water and shelter?
Time in the camps does not move forward and educated refugees are stuck, without the opportunity to create a path for a better future.
Conflict between Eritrea and Tigray has long represented a destabilising fault line for Ethiopia as well as for the wider region.
As ever, civilians are caught in the middle of warring ethnic groups in this strife-torn region of Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian premier is manipulating ethnic rivalries to shift the agenda from democratic reform to authoritarianism.
Why a mining company’s quiet settlement of a slave labour case is big news.
He’s a brooding, taciturn figure, who has dominated Eritrean politics since the 1970s, and there are few signs of an effective challenge to his rule.
The gap between the continent’s most democratic and authoritarian regions is likely to continue to grow.
The African Union’s intervention track record in conflict situations is mixed.
Immigrants from Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania constitute less than 1% of terrorism cases in the United States, and none of the cases in the last two years.
The number of personnel deployed in UN peacekeeping has slowly been decreasing.
Abiy Ahmed was awarded the prize for efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor in Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Executive director, Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council
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Lecturer of Political Science, Georgia Gwinnett College
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PhD candidate in Political Studies at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of African History, St Cross College, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in global studies, School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University
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Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Reader in Development Studies, University of Manchester
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Professor of Political Geography, Newcastle University
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Research Fellow, Coventry University
