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Red Sea Dynamics: part 4

The Horn of Africa and the Gulf: Shifting power plays in the Red Sea

The Gulf has the resources and the authority; the Horn the geography, the land, and the population. Everyone sees the asymmetries that push the ... complementary characteristics into a game of push-and-pull. In this fourth part of our series, we look into those constant power plays between the African and Gulf states in the Red Sea region.

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Red Sea Dynamics: part 3

The Red Sea: ‘A vital artery for the world economy’

Ten years ago the Red Sea was a backwater at the centre of the world. Today there is no place in the world with a greater and more complex involvement ... by regional powers. In the third part of our series, we look at why the Red Sea region continues to hold so much power.

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Red Sea Dynamics: part 2

Ports, military bases and treaties: Who’s who in the Red Sea

The Red Sea is governed by an alphabet soup of international agreements and peppered with dozens of strategic ports and military bases. To help ... you navigate, here is a non-exhaustive list of the principal players and treaties and locations.

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Red Sea Dynamics: part 1

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan…Conflict or cooperation in the Red Sea?

Over the next three weeks, 'The Africa Report' will publish a series of articles by independent experts on the political and security dynamics ... facing the Red Sea region.

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Members of the Amhara Special Force return to the Dansha Mechanized 5th division Military base after fighting against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), in Danasha, Amhara region near a border with Tigray

urgent intervention needed

Ethiopia: Escalating strife with Tigray could lead to civil war

A simmering feud between Ethiopia’s Federal Government and leaders in the Tigray region has escalated into armed confrontation which threatens ... to turn into a civil war, with long-term repercussions for stability across the Horn of Africa region. Urgent intervention is needed to reduce tensions and commit both parties to a cease-fire and negotiations.

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Members of Amhara region militias ride on their truck as they head to face the Tigray People's Liberation Front in Sanja

time is of the essence

Ethiopia: Not too late to stop Tigray conflict from unravelling country

In the early hours of 4 November, a powder keg exploded in the Horn of Africa, as tensions between Ethiopia’s federal government and Tigray ... region’s leaders erupted into conflict.

Ethiopia sends army into opposition Tigray region

swords drawn

Tigray crisis in Ethiopia: Federal government marches towards war with TPLF

Ethiopia's Council of Minister has declared six months of state of emergency in Tigray after war broke out between the forces of the federal ... and regional governments.

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questionable decisions

Ethiopia: Federal solidarity is needed to solve Tigray dispute

In the early hours of 4 November, Ethiopia's Federal government ordered a military offensive against the Tigray People Liberation Front; a questionable ... move for the stability of the country.

Ethiopia's PM Ahmed waits for the arrival of EC President von der Leyen before their meeting in Addis Ababa

breaking point

Ethiopia: PM Abiy orders military attack against the TPLF

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced this morning that the National Defense Forces (ENDF), was given an order to start a military offensive ... against the Tigray's People Liberation Front (TPLF) in the Tigray regional state in the north-east of the country.

looted treasures

Ethiopia: The fight to repatriate artefacts is far from over

There is growing pressure on the British government to return various artefacts and treasures looted from Ethiopia at the end of the 19th century. ... Though the Ethiopian government has been in talks with authorities in London for their permanent return and pledged to bring lawful and political pressures to bear, its efforts have borne little success so far.

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