A Lasting Peace in the Horn of Africa?
uring the last couple of months, the Horn of Africa has been witnessing landmark developments.
How’s the Weather? Scorching Heat and Flash Floods
Following four consecutive years of below average rainfall, the Horn of Africa is experiencing the worst drought in 40 years.
A New Cold War Erupts in the Shadow of Food Crises
Global commodity markets face upside risks from reduced grain supply, higher energy prices, higher fertilizer prices, and disruption to trade due to the closure of major seaports such as Pivdennyi, Odessa, Mykolaiv, and Chornomorsk, which account for about 80% of the total throughput of Ukrainian seaports.
Apology and Acknowledgement: Algerians Recall France’s Colonial History
France also started to discuss thorny issues between the two countries, such as the rights of the Pieds-Noirs, the French settlers in Algeria, who left Algeria after independence, and the right of return to their homeland of Algerian Harka, the Algerians who fought with France in the 1954-1962 war and who fled with the French army in 1962, including granting them a full pardon.
Turkey-Somalia Relations: A Decade of Substantial Strategic Cooperation
What is the nature of Turkey-Somalia relations? What role is Turkey playing both in Somalia’s state-building and capacity-building processes? How has this relation reconfigured the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa region?
A momentous visit
On August 19, 2011, then Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan paid a surprising visit to Somalia.
Realpolitik vs. Idealpolitik: Turkey-Gulf Re-friending after a Decade-Long Rivalry
It was reported that Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Nechirvan Barzani, a good friend of both Erdoğan and MBZ, helped facilitate the rapprochement between Turkey and the UAE – two countries that confronted on almost all regional issues concerning Libya, Egypt, the Horn of Africa, Yemen, and the Eastern Mediterranean throughout the past decade.
How to Read Russian Expansionism in Africa
Thus, Russia is turning to countries in Africa with which it had close ties during the Soviet period, especially in North Africa and the Horn of Africa, and has already signed economic and military agreements with Egypt, Algeria, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and the Central African Republic.
The Gamesmanship of Straits in Global Politics
Read: The Great Reconfiguration of Global Supply ChainsThis waterway, located between the Arab Peninsula and the Horn of Africa, represents an economic and political entanglement of players in the Red Sea region, but also one of the straits most subject to violence, famine, piracy, and the global pandemic effects – most notably along the Somali coasts.
Returning to the Stage: Egypt’s Initiatives May Reshape East African Geopolitics
When the war in Tigray started however, the battle lines were re-drawn, and all assumed their new roles in the Horn of Africa’s new geopolitical matrix.
How Djibouti Surrounded Itself by Military Bases
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In the same vein, even though the Guelleh government promised to respect the strategic interests of the United States, Washington does not view Djibouti’s economic policy prospects of emerging as an important commercial hub in the Horn of Africa positively.
All-Out-War between Ethiopia and Sudan on the Doorstep?
Third, in the current tension, the military, political and economic roles of emerging actors such as China, Turkey, UAE, and Saudi Arabia are increasing in the Horn of Africa and Northeast Africa regions as never before.
Is the UAE-Saudi Political Alliance Sustainable?
While the UAE-Saudi Arabia axis continued its anti-Turkey policies, it also followed similar policies in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Horn of Africa, Libya, Syria, Iraq, and lately in the Maghreb region.
Piracy and the Global Military Presence in the Gulf of Aden
The first and foremost difference is that unlike pirate attacks in other parts of the world, such as the Straits of Malacca (located between Malaysia and Indonesia), pirate assaults in the Horn of Africa mostly target large vessels and bulk carriers that often transport coal and iron ore, and tanker ships that transport petroleum, chemicals, and crude oil.
Restoring Order in the Eastern Mediterranean: Understanding Turkey’s Activism in Libya
Performing successful military operations in Syria, using the hard power elements in the Horn of Africa and Gulf regions as a foreign policy tool and, finally, engaging in an Eastern Mediterranean-centered foreign policy activism, Turkey is recently experiencing one of its most influential periods in regional policy.
To Counter Turkey, Saudi Arabia Backs the YPG in Syria
The deepening of Saudi Arabia’s partnership with the YPG unfolds against the backdrop of scores of other issues that have severely tested Ankara-Riyadh relations in recent years from the Qatar crisis to the Jamal Khashoggi saga, and geopolitical competition in the Horn of Africa to the politics of post-2011 Egypt, as well as the failed coup plot against Turkey’s government in 2016.
Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopia: Bandwagon or Hegemony?
Regional integration, which is PM Abiy’s third pillar of his reform agenda, in addition to democratization and economic liberalization, is breathing air for positive change in the Horn of Africa.
Abiy Ahmed: America’s Checkmate in East Africa’s Geopolitical Chessboard
There is a lingering question: Where is Abiy Ahmed’s foreign policy pace and hubris sprouting from while domestic issues glare at him?
The Horn of Africa: the new Sino-American geopolitical playground
A geopolitical policy shift was evident in the U.
From Cooperation to Conflict: The UAE’s Deepening Crisis with Somalia and Djibouti
he Horn of Africa region has recently been the stage for a number of international actors that aim to expand their foreign policy reach.
The EU-Africa Summit: Africa Deserves Better
On the same token, contrary to European efforts that seek to establish off-shore asylum processing centers and in contrary to “selective migration management,” Turkey has emerged as a new model on peace-making and fair partnership due to its humanitarian missions and military operations against terrorism and piracy, especially in the Horn of Africa.
