Tuesday 18 August 2026
Red sea
Opinion
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Rising tensions in the Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb corridors are exposing Somaliland’s economic and security vulnerabilities, increasing food, fuel, and shipping costs, and underscoring the need for strategic reserves and a more resilient domestic economy.…
Rising tensions in the Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb corridors are exposing Somaliland’s economic and security vulnerabilities, increasing food, fuel, and shipping costs, and underscoring the need for strategic reserves and a more resilient domestic economy.…
Analysis
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Somaliland has secured formal recognition from Israel, but this breakthrough carries political, moral, and security costs, drawing its statehood campaign into the conflicts shaping the Red Sea and the wider Middle East.…
Somaliland has secured formal recognition from Israel, but this breakthrough carries political, moral, and security costs, drawing its statehood campaign into the conflicts shaping the Red Sea and the wider Middle East.…
Current
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Five leading famine, conflict and humanitarian specialists have warned that the Greater Horn of Africa could descend into a major regional emergency during the second half of 2026 and into 2027. They say a strengthening El Niño, disruptions to food and fertiliser markets, epidemic threats and…
Five leading famine, conflict and humanitarian specialists have warned that the Greater Horn of Africa could descend into a major regional emergency during the second half of 2026 and into 2027. They say a strengthening El Niño, disruptions to food and fertiliser markets, epidemic threats and…
Interviews
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As crises multiply from Sudan to Yemen, Federico Donelli makes the case for seeing the Red Sea as a one interconnected region shaped by fluid alliances and the decline of old hierarchies.…
As crises multiply from Sudan to Yemen, Federico Donelli makes the case for seeing the Red Sea as a one interconnected region shaped by fluid alliances and the decline of old hierarchies.…
Analysis
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Across the Red Sea, rival powers are entrenching conflict and remaking political order in the Horn.…
Across the Red Sea, rival powers are entrenching conflict and remaking political order in the Horn.…
Analysis
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From Yemen’s mountains to the Bab al-Mandeb strait, the Houthis have turned geography into strategy. As the Iran–Israel war widens, the Horn of Africa sits across the water from a conflict that could yet reach its shores..…
From Yemen’s mountains to the Bab al-Mandeb strait, the Houthis have turned geography into strategy. As the Iran–Israel war widens, the Horn of Africa sits across the water from a conflict that could yet reach its shores..…
Current
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On the African shore opposite the Arabian Peninsula, Djibouti’s standing is growing as a pivotal anchor in the equation of influence, security, and trade across the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, at a time when the map of Gulf partnerships in the Horn of Africa is being reshaped. The small state,…
On the African shore opposite the Arabian Peninsula, Djibouti’s standing is growing as a pivotal anchor in the equation of influence, security, and trade across the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, at a time when the map of Gulf partnerships in the Horn of Africa is being reshaped. The small state,…
Books
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Federico Donelli’s book Power Competition in the Red Sea traces how global rivalries, regional ambitions, and local crises converge along one of the world’s most strategic waterways. His analysis reveals a region where trade routes and political fault lines meet.…
Federico Donelli’s book Power Competition in the Red Sea traces how global rivalries, regional ambitions, and local crises converge along one of the world’s most strategic waterways. His analysis reveals a region where trade routes and political fault lines meet.…
Current
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Ethiopia’s ambassador to Kenya, Bacha Debele, has renewed his country’s argument that access to the Red Sea is an “existential imperative,” in a commentary published this week in The Horn Review.
Debele wrote that Ethiopia’s landlocked status, a consequence of Eritrea’s independence in 1993, has…
Ethiopia’s ambassador to Kenya, Bacha Debele, has renewed his country’s argument that access to the Red Sea is an “existential imperative,” in a commentary published this week in The Horn Review.
Debele wrote that Ethiopia’s landlocked status, a consequence of Eritrea’s independence in 1993, has…
Current
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Recently, in an interview with Global Power Shift, Getachew Reda — former Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) official, interim president of the Tigray region, and now senior advisor to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed — cautioned against framing Ethiopia’s Red Sea ambitions as territorial…
Recently, in an interview with Global Power Shift, Getachew Reda — former Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) official, interim president of the Tigray region, and now senior advisor to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed — cautioned against framing Ethiopia’s Red Sea ambitions as territorial…
