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The response to the many problems facing the region has been set back by cuts in humanitarian aid.
Global media coverage tends to focus on just one of Ethiopia’s conflicts.
Over the past decade, India has come to see the Horn of Africa as a primary theatre of influence.
Beijing’s growing interest in Somalia is less about development corridors and more about political alignment.
Gulf states have been opportunistic players in the Horn of Africa.
Tehran’s presence in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea is selective and opportunistic.
While Israel’s recognition of Somaliland alters the board, it doesn’t end the game.
Since fighting broke out in April 2023, some 150,000 people have been killed in Sudan and an estimated 13.5 million displaced.
The Red Sea region has become a showcase of the new alliances shaping global power and influence.
US attempts to intervene in long-running spat between Ethiopia and Egypt has yielded little progress – and may have put US credibility on the line.
Legal ways to make a decent life inside and outside Ethiopia should be increased.
Addis Ababa’s willingness to work with regional rivals in the Middle East shows its practical approach to foreign relations.
Somalia’s competitiveness in global markets has weakened owing to climate change and conflict.
Supported by UAE and the US, the self-declared autonomous Somali region has pushed back Islamists’ advances.
Sudan’s conflict didn’t break out because of the UAE and Saudi Arabia – but local actors felt able to go to war because of external support.
China’s growing role in Africa presents a double-edged sword.
The opposition’s win in Somaliland’s election could help the breakaway state cement its place as a democratic state in a volatile region.
Somaliland’s presidential election represents a critical moment in the breakaway state’s 33-year quest for independence.
Egypt’s potentially destabilising presence in the Horn of Africa is a direct consequence of Ethiopia’s port agreement with breakaway Somaliland.
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