EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Horn of Africa confronts the credible prospect of a second Ethiopia–Eritrea war. Since late 2024, both states have mobilised troops, mechanized units and heavy equipment …

For decades now, the Horn of Africa remains a hotspot for protracted conflict, fragile political transitions, and humanitarian crises, from Somalia to Sudan, from South Sudan to the …

Afghanistan and Syria fell to Islamist insurgencies of the Taliban and Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) on August 15, 2021 and December 08, 2024. Both insurgencies were remarkably swift, …

The run-up to the October 29, 2025 general elections in Tanzania, has been marked less by contestation of ideas and more by the heavy-handed crackdown on the credible opposition. What …

In 2025, over a dozen African countries will head to the polls. Yet, the deeper reality is that most of these elections will be less about democratic choice …

From Central to the West and Eastern Africa, the continent is an electoral season likely to prove perhaps more destabilizing than armed conflict. In more than a dozen …

The United States and Israel are conducting military strikes under Operation Epic Fury on Iran since February 28, 2026. Iran's response has been immediate, wide-ranging and instructive, firing …

The United States of America (US) and Israel launched a joint military operation on Iran on February 28, 2026, triggering a regional conflict in the Gulf within the …

Over the past two decades, Ethiopia’s development trajectory has been closely intertwined with its expanding economic partnership with China

In recent years, West Africa’s Sahel region has emerged not only as a theatre of military coups but as a battleground in which regional order is rewritten. The …