The African Union (AU), through its Peace and Security Council (PSC), is casting its lot with efforts to mediate between ...

Somalia is exhibiting a constellation of structural warning signs that when viewed in aggregate bear a disquieting ...

For Ethiopia, the diaspora represents both a political challenge and a largely underutilized strategic asset. Its influence extends from domestic political dynamics and armed movements to the ...

For much of the past century, Ethiopia and Yemen have maintained a relationship shaped by geographical proximity, commercial ...

Eritrea remains a structural challenge to Ethiopia’s national security. The present relationship between the two countries is ...

One of the defining characteristics of leadership in the Horn of Africa is the extent to which the personal experiences, ...

On 17 December 2025, the Swedish foreign minister, Maria Malmer Stenergard, took the unprecedented step of travelling to Asmara to meet President Isaias’s senior envoy, Foreign Minister Osman Saleh.

The recent signing of a parliamentary Memorandum of Understanding between Somalia and Djibouti has been greeted in most ...

The seizure of the Amagala administration compound in Beledweyne by Macawisley fighters in late October 2026 presents a ...

For a landlocked nation, maritime access is rarely a matter of simple commerce; it is an existential variable that dictates ...

The definition for Somalia's political class is no longer the legal contestation of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's presidency.

The eruption of violence in Moyale demands an analysis that resists the temptation of reductionist ethnic framing. While the ...