Pastoralism remains one of the most important livelihood systems in the Horn of Africa, supporting millions of people through livestock keeping and small-scale agriculture. Across countries such as …

Abstract The eruption of “Operation Epic Fury,” the joint United States–Israel campaign against Iran launched on February 28, 2026, has exposed a structural vulnerability that African states hosting …

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 …