Horn of Africa

The report of the seven-member fact-finding commission formed in December last year to investigate Somalia’s claims for cutting diplomatic ties with Kenya on December 15, 2020 has substantially absolved Kenya …

The recent move by Somalia to sever diplomatic ties with Kenya over what it called ‘internal interference’ is the latest of diplomatic spats between the two neighborly countries. Cooperation between …

The past decade has seen a burgeoning of relations between the Middle East and Africa. Notably, there has been a renewed interest among Middle Eastern countries to forge stronger relations …

Kenya’s support for Somalia’s security and stabilization efforts cannot be gainsaid; no other country has given blood and sweat for Somalia than Kenya over the past three decades. The acute …

Few political pronouncements generate blips on monitors of Kenyans who are seemingly comatose from endless, empty political rhetoric. One of these is President Uhuru Kenyatta’s ‘revisiting’ of Kenya’s relations with …

On July 9, 2018, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, and Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki signed a peace agreement, effectively ending the state of war between the two countries which had …