Somalia News & Analysis

While global focus is fixed elsewhere in the Red Sea, Ethiopia has quietly hammered out a deal that could bring long-term geopolitical ramifications for the region.

Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s mandate has expired and no new elections are on the horizon. Has Somalia’s 2012 constitution reached its breaking point?

Tracking the most vulnerable and food-insecure regions in the year ahead.

Ethiopia’s climate-sensitive economy, growing population, and inter-ethnic conflict make it a geopolitical time bomb primed to explode.

A food crisis of biblical proportions is brewing in East Africa.

After a three-decade absence from the Horn of Africa, Italy is re-engaging with the region – and its ambitions go well beyond the issue of migration.

Exploring the lesser-known, other face of the Somali conflict.

Tracking some of the most vulnerable and food-insecure regions in what is expected to be the hottest year ever.

Droughts disrupted food production and spurred migration and conflict worldwide in 2017. Will 2018 be any different?

Recent polls in Somaliland will go down as a lost chance for greater international recognition.

Drought and food insecurity have created a humanitarian crisis in Somalia, leading to an uptick in piracy in the Gulf of Aden among other destabilizing developments.

A famine is threatening a delicate sense of hope in one of Africa’s most dysfunctional states.

Unsustainable fishing in Africa is reaching crisis levels, but there’s still time to do something about it.

Military responses to the al-Shabaab Garissa attacks in Kenya are doomed to fail.

The Westgate shopping mall attack brought into lurid and tragic detail what African security experts have known all along: Al-Shabab is still a serious security threat to Horn of Africa countries and beyond.