Strategic Thinking on East Africa

From Quartz 32 WRITTEN BY Jason Patinkin Ethiopia’s army entered South Sudan this week to search for over 100 children abducted by a South Sudanese militia during a cross-border cattle raid last month. Ethiopia said the raiders killed over 200 people and blamed the attack on an ethnic Murle militia from South Sudan’s Boma area, […]

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by the Strathink Editorial Team Part 2 of our series on the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi looks at conversations with American diplomats on events following the 2005 election.   Prime Minster Meles is displaying a kind of respectful defiance of the international community as he builds Ethiopia democracy—his way. U.S. Ambassador Donald Yamamoto To […]

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Parliament of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia RESOLUTION Supporting respect for human rights and encouraging inclusive governance in the United States. Whereas the first pillar of the 2016 Ethiopia Strategy Toward North America is to strengthen democratic institutions and the Government of Ethiopia agrees that strong democratic institutions, respect for human […]

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A man watches the news about Riek Machar’s delayed return in Juba, South Sudan, April 20. The rebel leader’s return to the capital has been consistently delayed and could put South Sudan’s fragile peace deal under strain.CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES   A full week after he was scheduled to touch down in the capital Juba […]

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OPINION By Hagos Abraha It is not unusual for the Eritrea regime to repeat its make believe claims regarding Ethiopia and the region in general. However, it not always we find respected institutions engaged in such intellectually bankrupt propaganda. Sadly, that was the case with the recent article published by the Nordic Africa Institute. We […]

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Disagreement over weapons is preventing rebel leader from returning to Juba to form unity government, officials say. Justin Lynch | A disagreement over weapons is preventing South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar from returning to Juba, according to demands from a government official and a rebel spokesman. Since December 2013, South Sudan has been crippled […]

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BY LAURA SECORUN PALETAPR 172016 ACUMEN Every day all over the world, people cross borders in search of a better life. But you know things are truly bad back home when you need to seek refuge in Sudan. That’s precisely what more than 125,530 people have done — and the United Nations High Commissioner […]

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Center for Policy Analysis and Research By Abdiwahid Abdullahi* April 12, 2016 Since the awakening of the Somali nationalism in 1945 after the defeat of Dervish warriors in the Godan plains of Nugal, the Somalis were dreaming to settle an old grievance that divided the Somali inhabited territories. The arrival of the Europeans had not […]

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Deutsche Welle Every month as many as 5,000 people flee Eritrea, a country ruled by an authoritarian regime in which human rights violations are widespread. Oliver Ramme has just returned from a rare visit to the African nation. Eritrean asylum seekers at a refugee camp in Kassala State, eastern Sudan Tokombia is a village lying […]

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From Chatham House Adjoa Anyimadu Research Associate, Africa Programme Tanzania’s leaders will need to increasingly rely on astute policy-making to maintain the country’s unique position in a region with numerous powerful national leaders, writes Adjoa Anyimadu. Magogoni ferry arrives at city full of commuters, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Photo: Charles Bowman/Getty Images. Summary Despite its long-standing […]

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