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A premier independent research & publication think-tank dedicated to political, diplomatic & security analysis in the HoA region. @HornDialogues @analyticanew
Addis Ababa
Joined May 2021
El-Sisi has transformed the GERD dispute into a political shield - to divert attention from repression & economic strain, turning the dam into a national litmus test. Bezawit Eshetu unpacks how hydropolitics is deployed to fortify authoritarian rule. https://t.co/fHuAug9Tfj
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The controversy over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been transformed from a technical negotiation into a political instrument. Under President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the GERD functions...
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Somalia’s e-visa breach exposed deep governance and security gaps. Bezawit Eshetu examines how a digital failure quickly became a regional concern. https://t.co/lIDgJjCPzW
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Somalia’s e-visa catastrophe is far more than a technical malfunction. It has crystallized a convergence of governance failures, regional power contests, and the dangerous ways in which digital...
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Ethiopia’s regional power and influence is often misunderstood. Mahder Nesibu explains why the country functions less as a hegemon and more as the Horn’s stabilizing anchor. https://t.co/xQWbC9mBe5
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The debate over Ethiopia’s regional role oscillates between two central ideas: hegemony and anchor statehood. Both have circulated for decades in the language of international relations and foreign...
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We were honoured to host Dawit Yohannes (PHD), Senior Researcher & Project Manager at the Institute for Security Studies @issafrica for a discussion with our young researchers - on the existing & emerging challenges shaping Peacekeeping Operations in the Horn of Africa & beyond.
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From Assab to the Red Sea’s new security map, Ethiopia’s maritime return is a strategic inevitability - an equilibrium that regional stability now depends on. In this article, @AmbNebiyuTedla deconstruct the myth of Ethiopia’s “permanent” landlocked fate. https://t.co/B1I0buqTH5
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By Nebiyu Tedla , Ambassador Ethiopia understands perhaps more than any other nation the profound implications of geographic confinement. Once a historic sea power whose ships traversed the Red Sea...
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Egypt’s foreign policy is built on a paradox between granduer & anxiety: a nation that sees itself as exceptional yet geographically vulnerable. Mahder Nesibu traces how this tension continues to shape Cairo’s posture toward Ethiopia & the Nile Basin. https://t.co/vohJtj00Fb
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Egypt’s foreign policy has long been guided by a conviction that the country is exceptional—singular in its civilization, central in its geography, and destined to play a leading role in both the...
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As Egypt continue to signal a calculated effort to sway U.S. policy on the GERD, Samiya M. argues that Ethiopia must pivot from principled multilateralism to strategic reciprocity if it is to navigate the former's rising influence over Washington.
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The awarding of Egypt's Collar of the Nile to Donald Trump constitutes in excess of a routine diplomatic exchange. As Egypt arranges this courtship, Ethiopia must meet Egypt's diplomatic courtship...
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Ethiopia–Eritrea tensions are not a simple border standoff - they’re a collision of regional insecurity and Asmara’s confrontational statecraft. Mahder N. unpacks what the world keeps misreading. https://t.co/q3VTfPQhTh
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The deepening tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea has become a central concern for many external actors. Speculation about the possibility of open conflict continues to circulate, shaped by compet...
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Qatar’s $30B investment in Egypt’s Alam El Roum project: tourism, yes - but also a strategic lever in the Red Sea–Nile calculus that Ethiopia cannot ignore, writes Samiya Mohammed. https://t.co/ctRaJAFeIG
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The recent Qatar and Egypt announcement is one of the region's largest real estate and tourism partnerships, a $29.7 billion integrated urban development on Egypt's North Coast spanning 4,900 acres...
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Gulf ambition reshapes the Horn: Riyadh and Abu Dhabi project power through ports, diplomacy & conflict, turning the region into a strategic extension of Gulf influence. Horn Review's latest analysis by Mahider Nesibu. https://t.co/Ul3NAhL39b
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The geopolitics of the Gulf monarchies, shaped by their interests and world view, is constructing a new security complex that binds the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, with the Gulf emerging as...
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Nasserism didn’t die, it migrated. From Abboud to Burhan, Egypt’s military doctrine helped script Sudan’s coup-driven politics. Today’s civil war in Sudan is the latest chapter in a 70-year cycle Cairo once helped normalize, argues Yonas Y & Surafel T. https://t.co/IEtyLPED8k
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From the late nineteenth century to the present, the political bond between Egypt and Sudan has been shaped by overlapping histories, shared geography and repeated interventions. Those structural...
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Colonial legacies, entrenched militias, and decades of marginalization have set the stage for Sudan’s fragmentation. The RSF’s capture of Darfur may signal a return to a divided Sudan, echoing patterns first drawn under imperial rule - writes Yonas Y. https://t.co/iKLG81QEws
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Before its incorporation into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Darfur was an independent and well-established sultanate. Founded in the 17th century by the Keira dynasty, the Sultanate of Darfur had...
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As Egypt doubles down on old hegemonies & encirclement, Ethiopia pushes a bold Pax-Africana rooted in geoeconomic integration. Nurye Yasin argues the Nile–Red Sea order is undergoing its biggest rewrite in centuries.
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In a world that seeks balance, the Horn of Africa and wider Red Sea regions yearn for new answers to address the perils of this momentous era. Egypt’s responds to such changing vital spaces of the...
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Iranian drones, Eritrean ports, shifting power corridors. A silent axis is forming on Ethiopia’s doorstep, and the Red Sea balance may never look the same. Read Yonas Yizezew's indepth analysis. https://t.co/vLWdQIKEgY
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The recent reported satellite imagery revealing arrival of Belarusian Ilyushin-62 freighter in Massawa, tracing the route of a sanctioned Iranian Fars Air Qeshm 747 just weeks earlier, has triggered...
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