The Horn of Africa and the ‘Middle East Cold War’ – A deadly game of chess
A new tussle for dominance is underway in the Horn of Africa. Once written off as one of Africa’s most volatile and treacherous regions for …
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Travel: The faded elegance of Asmara (Eritrea)
Asmara, is one of those African cities that seem to have fallen off the map as so little about it escapes to the outside world …
Les Sans Papiers
In France alone, 57,565 illegal migrants were locked up last year. Survivors of a horrifying journey, reminiscent of transatlantic slavery’s Middle Passage, across the central …
Scramble in the Horn
How Ethiopia’s search for a permanent port is reshaping trade and power in the Horn of Africa.
Afwerki: ‘Self-Reliance Does Not Mean Isolation’
Once dubbed the “hope of Africa” by a Western newspaper, Eritrea has since been lambasted as a rogue state led by an authoritarian regime, paranoid …