Sudan War

Sudan's ongoing conflict, fueled by foreign interests, has led to severe humanitarian crises, displacing millions and leaving 19 million facing food insecurity. The war's impact on civilians is profound, with healthcare systems collapsing and aid efforts severely underfunded.

Sudan’s government has formally rejected the Berlin conference on Sudan, with Prime Minister Kamil Idris saying the meeting and its outcomes “do not concern” the Sudanese people or government because Khartoum was excluded from participation. In remarks published by the Sudanese e

There was something deeply revealing about the Sudan conference staged in Berlin this week. It was presented as diplomacy. It was marketed as concern. It was wrapped in the language of humanitarian urgency and civilian-centered politics. But strip away the polished statements and

Egypt and Eritrea moved to deepen economic cooperation during high-level talks in Cairo on Monday, while also aligning on key regional issues including Sudan’s territorial integrity and Red Sea security. Egypt’s official readout said the meeting focused on trade, investment, indu

The mask keeps slipping. A new report by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab says it has reached a high-confidence conclusion that military assistance to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces is taking place inside an Ethiopian National Defense Force base in Asosa, in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-

Brussels is not undergoing a moral conversion. It is responding to a harsher strategic map in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea. Annette Weber, the European Union’s Special Representative for the Horn of Africa, was in Asmara this week, and the visit matters less for any dramati

The African Union Commission has appointed former Tanzanian president Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete as the AU High Representative for the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea, placing a veteran East African statesman at the center of one of the continent’s most sensitive geopolitical files. Th

An opinion piece titled, "Middle East's future may be decided in the Horn of Africa : The Red Sea is becoming the centre of global power."  was published on #JerusalemPost on 15 March by Dr Shmuel Legesse . The author is an international educator, community activist, a diplomacy

Washington has finally said it plainly. In a March 19 speech at the Powering Africa Summit, Senior Bureau Official Nick Checker laid out the Trump administration’s Africa policy in language that stripped away much of the old diplomatic wrapping. Africa, in this telling, is no lon

As the Strait of Hormuz buckles under the weight of war, a reckless axis of actors—driven by Abu Dhabi and executed by its clients in Addis Ababa—threatens to turn the Horn of Africa into a global economic catastrophe. At a moment when the Strait of Hormuz is already under severe

As Ethiopia moves into its 2026 election cycle, Tigrayan political actors say siege conditions are tightening again and federal force deployments are pointing toward renewed war. The most serious signal right now is not coming from Addis Ababa’s talking points. It is coming from

Khartoum has stopped hinting and started naming the line it says Addis Ababa has crossed. In a press statement issued  Monday, March 2, 2026 , Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had monitored drones entering Sudan  “from inside Ethiopian territory”  throughout February a