The Horn of Africa sits beside one of the most important maritime corridors in the world. Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and ...

The episode reveals a distinction in the U.S.-Saudi security relationship that is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: Washington remains willing to assume strategic risk on Riyadh’s behalf, but ...

Certain structural conditions in political history recur with regularity to permit analytical generalization. Armed formations united principally by opposition to an authority periodically formalize ...

South Sudan decided to proceed with the Grand Fulla Dam not because it had obtained Egypt’s consent, but because developing its water resources is the right of a sovereign Nile Basin state. South ...

By Amanuel Tadesse, International Law and Foreign Relations Expert Eritrea’s relationship with Ethiopia has historically been ...

Washington's decision to let sanctions on Eritrea's leadership lapse has drawn an open letter from the Red Sea Afar ...

Egypt has portrayed the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as an existential peril to its water security grounding this claim in near total dependence on Nile flows. Analytical scrutiny of Egypt's ...

When Saudi Arabia formed a coalition of states in July, in reaction to a blockade imposed by the Houthis in Yemen on its ...

Every time Sudan's war comes up in public discussion, mentioning the abuses of one side, it almost always produces the same ...

The island of Zuqar sits in the southern Red Sea, less than twenty miles from the Eritrean coast and roughly sixty miles from ...

The closed door meeting in Djibouti in early May 2026 convened under the mediation of President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Malik Agar Deputy Chairman of Sudan’s ...

The Houthi advance along Yemen’s Red Sea coast has exposed a weakness in the security arrangement that developed around Yemen after Britain left Aden. Houthi forces have captured Mocha and expanded ...