Unemployment and corruption drive anger and despair, yet the flame of hope flickers alive.
- Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
The situation is dire for the tens of thousands of refugees and migrants who wind up in Libya each year.
Polls suggest the ANC is set to lose its majority in South Africa.
Parties to the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have agreed to end hostilities after two years. Here is a selection of previously published articles on its devastating consequences.
The origins of Ethiopia’s food crisis can be traced to a bitter feud between Eritrean and Tigrayan liberation fighters.
He’s a brooding, taciturn figure, who has dominated Eritrean politics since the 1970s, and there are few signs of an effective challenge to his rule.
The April 1994 election proved to be a watershed for South Africa.
It’s unclear how relations between Addis Ababa and Asmara will develop but the warmth has largely gone.
Al-Bashir’s ability to play a skillful combination of internal and external balancing acts, plus ruthless repression and a divided opposition, kept him in power for three decades.
Concern at the role of fake sites in influencing South African public opinion has been growing over time.
Leaders go in and out of fashion, making statues built in their memory a tricky issue.
Kenya is attacked far more than Ethiopia or other eastern African states by al-Shabaab militants.
Given the range of support for President Omar al-Bashir it isn’t surprising that he’s managed to resist pressure to step down.
It is difficult to see how the EU can allow its key African migration work to be supervised by Eritrea.
The lifting of UN Sanctions is unlikely to end internal and external pressure for reform and greater democracy in Eritrea.
For black South Africans, the hard lesson was the same as it had been during the Boer war: support for Britain would bring few rewards.
As South Africa became an international pariah, it began working in shady ways through even more shady operators, including getting arms from the Soviet Union and China.
Sería un error ridiculizar lo que se ha logrado en la región, pero aún queda mucho camino por recorrer.
It would be a mistake to ridicule what’s been achieved in the Horn of Africa, but obstacles remain.
The Eritrean ports of Massawa and Assab will hum with life once more as trade flows through them.
Few believed they would see an end to two decades of hostility between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Israel is deporting thousands of Eritrean asylum seekers to Rwanda, while in the US, many face being sent back to the country they fled.
Qatar withdrawing its troops has reignited tensions between Eritrea and Djibouti which the UN and African Union are trying to mediate. This comes as Eritrea is also embroiled in the Yemen civil war.
A deal to secure the southern Libyan border aims to stop migrants from attempting to cross the Mediterranean.
Eritreans are at risk of severe malnutrition – but aid agencies struggle to access those in need.
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