Strategic Thinking on East Africa

Addis Ababa, 6 July 2015 (WIC) - A ship carrying 3,500 Somalis fleeing the conflict in Yemen arrived in Bossaso on 2 July. Puntland officials said it was the largest single influx of returning refugees since the war started in Yemen. Puntland’s Deputy Minister of Interior, Abdullahi Hashi Qoobdeero, responsible for coordinating the reception and resettlement […]

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By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned in a new report that the crisis in Yemen could open a corridor for jihadist movements through Somalia, which is located just across the Gulf of Aden. Ban said in a report to the U.N. Security Council circulated Monday that security in Somalia and […]

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Addis Ababa, May 13, 2015 (WIC) - A boat carrying approximately 1000 Somali refugees from Yemen is expected to dock at Bossaso port in the regional state of Puntland in forthcoming hours according to the Puntland administration. The boat, which reportedly set out a day before, is ferrying Somalis including women and children who are fleeing […]

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7 May 2015 When Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser deployed tens of thousands of troops in Yemen in the mid 1960s for several years to support a nationalist coup modelled on his own, ‘It was a bloody and fruitless experience that historians call “Egypt’s Vietnam,”’ as The New York Times recently wrote. Will the current Saudi-led military intervention […]

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From Foreign Policy Yemenis desperately need hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid being offered by Saudi Arabia. But relief workers are wary of taking the money while Saudi airstrikes continue. BY LARA JAKES MAY 4, 2015   Humanitarian aid groups that have been a lifeline to millions of desperate people in Yemen are considering rejecting a […]

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BY LARA JAKES APRIL 23, 2015 - 10:10 AM Thousands of refugees are fleeing Yemen every day to escape a country that the United Nations says is on “the brink of total disaster” as Saudi Arabian airstrikes continue to pound Houthi rebels who have seized control of Sanaa and other swaths of Yemen. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees […]

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Addis Ababa, 8 April 2015 (WIC) - Somalia’s government has officially acknowledged that it has allowed Saudi Arabia to use its airspace for conducting airstrikes against Houthi militia forces in Yemen. In an interview with the BBC Somali service on Tuesday (April 7), Somalia’s Foreign Minister, Abdisalam Omer ‘Hadliye’, said that Somalia had “officially approved […]

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From The Turkish Weekly Eritrean Foreign Ministry has dismissed reports that alleged Iranian support to Shiite Houthi militant group was being channeled through the Horn of Africa nation. “The government of Eritrea has been monitoring such repeated and groundless allegations claiming at one time that ‘there exist Israeli bases in Eritrea’ and at another ‘Iranian […]

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  Crisis Group Middle East Briefing N°45 Sanaa/Brussels, 27 March 2015 I. Overview Yemen is at war. The country is now divided between the Huthi movement, which con- trols the north and is rapidly advancing south, and the anti-Huthi coalition backed by Western and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) allies that President Abdo Robo Mansour Hadi […]

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July 4, 2014-Aljazeera reports that Ethiopia has requested the extradition of Andargachew Tsige, Secretary General of Ginbot 7-designated a terrorist organization by the Ethiopian government. Ginbot 7 openly calls for the overthrow of the Ethiopian government. Ethiopian Review, a website hosted by members of the Ethiopian opposition, publicized a letter allegedly written by EU MP […]

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