Au Somaliland, la discrète implantation d’une base militaire construite par les Emirats pour les Etats-Unis et Israël Berbera attire les convoitises en raison de son emplacement stratégique, à l’entrée sud de la mer Rouge. Des images satellitaires consultées par « Le Monde » révèlent que l’aéroport de Berbera s’agran...

www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

How People Use ChatGPT Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

"We find steady growth in work-related messages but even faster growth in non-work-related messages, which have grown from 53% to more than 70% of all usage."

www.nber.org/papers/w34255

The world's electricity infrastructure, mapped.

"Yemen’s internationally recognized government has reported that Iranian personnel entered Hodeidah by dhow from the Horn of Africa in the days before the Houthis’ March 28 launch."

The logistical dimensions of this conflict certainly also run through the Horn.

www.stimson.org/2026/how-to-...

Job advertisement of the University of Bayreuth - Chair for Sociology in Africa Two Postdoctoral Positions (m/f/d)

2 #postdoc positions available at UBT: on South - South security arrangements and transnational security/aid professionals from the Global South and East. Happy to answer questions! www.uni-bayreuth.de/job-vacancy-...
@postcolh.bsky.social @conf-mean-trans.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social

Ethiopia Signs $13.1 Billion of Energy, Mining Investment Deals Ethiopia has signed $13.1 billion of investment deals spanning renewable energy, manufacturing, real estate, mining and green ammonia, according to the government.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Iran developing a ‘vetting system’ for Strait of Hormuz transit: Report Lloyd's List reports that ships could be allowed to pass through 'safe corridor' once they are approved by IRGC.

Iran looking to formalize its control over the Strait and its power to receive tolls from favored nations in exchange for freedom of movement

says India, Pakistan, Iraq, Malaysia and China are in negotiations now to establish rules of transit
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

Corridor Governance: How LAAF-RSF Cooperation Sharpens Gulf Competition in Libya and Sudan | ISPI Cross-border supply corridors linking Libya and Sudan have become the backbone of the RSF’s war endurance.

Helpful analysis from Emadeddin Badi for ISPI:
Corridor Governance: How LAAF-RSF Cooperation Sharpens Gulf Competition in Libya and Sudan
www.ispionline.it/en/publicati...

Israel to build base in Somaliland to target Houthis, says report Somaliland will allow Israel to gather intelligence and conduct operations against Yemeni group, sources tell Bloomberg

www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

What did people think Israel's recognition of Somaliland was about, if not this?

This was always going to be the plan.

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Resharing this paper from a year:

„The Bab-El-Mandeb to the Suez Canal is part and parcel of our national security. […] If Djibouti becomes the theatre of global war, given the presence of all these military bases including of China and America, then we are trapped.“

Me too.

Event flyer with abstract & speaker bios.

Cover of the book.

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 3 March for a book launch & discussion of:

Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts, Chinese Corporations, and Contestations over Sovereignty

with author Miriam Driessen & discussant Hallelujah Lulie

*Hybrid event* Full details talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3f3...

The growing threat of conflict in the Horn of Africa With no sign yet of a diplomatic off-ramp, this analysis explores the conflict dynamics that could lead to war.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

The Horn and the Gulf: How a New Geopolitical Confluence is Emerging | African Arguments The Horn and the Gulf

A good overview and analysis from Ngala Chome on African Arguments from a few days ago:
The Horn and the Gulf: How a New Geopolitical Confluence is Emerging
africanarguments.org/2026/01/the-...

There aren’t that many cars in Ethiopia? Yes. What is the point you are making?

🚨It’s publication day!🚨

My book OCCUPIED REFUGE is officially OUT today with Duke University Press. Available to order from all book shops!

Upcoming book launches in Glasgow, Oxford, Nairobi and—perhaps—a city near you!

Read the introduction for free online: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...

How Ethiopia Is Embracing the EV Revolution and Ditching Fossil Fuel Cars Also: companies including Apple are quitely dropping ESG links to executive pay.

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

In memoriam

It is with great sadness that the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa must announce the passing of our inaugural director, Professor Tim Allen.

You can read more about Tim’s life and legacy, and leave a message of condolence, on our website
www.lse.ac.uk/africa/about...

Ethiopia, Eritrea and Tigray: A Powder Keg in the Horn of Africa | International Crisis Group The risk of hostilities involving Ethiopia, its northernmost Tigray region and its neighbour Eritrea remains high three years after the last major war in the area. African states and outside powers sh...

www.crisisgroup.org/brf/africa/e...

Excellent! Thanks.

Sylvia Croese’s keynote on Gradualism as it manifests in political governance and development projects across Angola. Chaired by Biruk Terrefe #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social

Is there any way to follow this conversation online?

If you’re in Oxford, go attend the movie and this discussion!

What a wonderful week we had at #UTADo2026 in Addis Ababa, hosted by the Urban Center. Looking forward to future editions!

The US is deliberately denying Cubans access to fuel and lecturing China on authoritarian supply chains.

Acclaimed Sudanese filmmakers pull out of Berlinale Co-Pro Market after visa rejection over “migration risk” EXCLUSIVE: The director and producer of 'Blue Card' previously produced Cannes award-winner 'Goodbye Julia'.

New scandal at #Berlinale. After Wim Wenders refused to comment on Israel/Palestine and requested the Berlinale to stay out of politics, now foreign office added next scandal, refusing visas for Sudanese filmmakers. A #Berlinale in Fortress Europe is not possible
www.screendaily.com/news/acclaim...

Standing ovations for this speech by Marco #Rubio at the #MSC2026? Rotten lot.

Event flyer with book abstract and speaker bios

Cover of the book

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 17 Feb for a book launch & discussion of:
'Peasants to Paupers: Land, Class and Kinship in Central Kenya'
with author Peter Lockwood (Göttingen)
& David Anderson (Warwick)
*Hybrid event* Full details & webinar registration:
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b8f...

Grounding ourselves through Yousuf Al Bulushi’s Keynote on Fanon in the City #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social