Security | Horn Affairs

The UN Security Council’s latest resolution on Somalia

On Tuesday this week the UN Security Council met to consider Somalia, unanimously adopting Resolution 2067 (2012), reiterating its commitment…

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 @ 11:52 pm

With the illness and death of Prime Minister Meles, many in the Diaspora and abroad, Ethiopian and non-Ethiopian alike, have…

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 @ 11:41 pm

Policy Briefing Africa Briefing N°89 Nairobi/Brussels, 22 August 2012 Ethiopia After Meles I. OVERVIEW The death of Prime Minister Meles…

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 @ 11:36 pm

The aim of this essay is to critically consider some of the doubts and speculations concerning the political future of…

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 @ 11:41 pm

Somalia's Parliament on Monday elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, aged 56, as President of Somalia for the next four years. The…

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 @ 11:40 pm

(By: William Davison) Ethiopia ’s government is in peace talks with the Ogaden National Liberation Front, an outlawed ethnic-Somali rebel…

Monday, September 10, 2012 @ 7:03 pm

Media reports indicated that the President granted pardon today for thousands of prisoners, including two Swedish journalists. Here are the…

Monday, September 10, 2012 @ 7:00 pm

[Summary of a discussion held at Chatham House last Month] * Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh (Minister of Economy, Finance and Planning,…

Sunday, August 19, 2012 @ 11:45 pm

An Ethiopian court approved on Thursday the government’s decision to block the distribution of Feteh newspaper’s last week issue. The…

Friday, July 27, 2012 @ 6:56 pm

South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, celebrates its first anniversary of independence on Monday, July 9th. It has been a…

Sunday, July 8, 2012 @ 11:59 pm