EconomySomalia
Galmudug Launches New Development Plan
The central state sets out priorities across water, roads, health and education, in a region where the administration is younger than most of its problems.
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Horn of Africa
Landlocked Ethiopia's Search for Sea Access Reshapes Regional Diplomacy
Every serious question in Horn diplomacy now runs through one problem: how a country of more than a hundred and twenty million reaches the sea.
People
The Engineers Building the Horn's Digital Infrastructure
A generation trained abroad is returning to build the systems the region runs on.
BusinessEritrea
Mining Projects Anchor Eritrea's Export Economy
Gold, copper, zinc and potash in the Arabian-Nubian Shield make mining the country's principal source of foreign exchange.
BusinessDjibouti
Djibouti's Free Zone Attracts Regional Distribution Business
The free zone is the mechanism by which a transit country tries to become a destination.
PoliticsEthiopia
Tigray Transition Continues Under Cessation-of-Hostilities Framework
The 2022 agreement ended the fighting. Implementation has been slower than the text envisaged.
SportsSomalia
Somali Football Rebuilds Around a New Generation
Stadiums that stood empty for two decades are hosting competitive football again.
Explained
Ethiopia and Eritrea: From Thirty Years of War to a Peace Deal, and What Came After
A timeline of the relationship that has done more than any other to shape the modern Horn.
CultureEritrea
Eritrea's Tourism Strategy Targets Heritage and the Red Sea Coast
Asmara's modernist architecture, the Dahlak archipelago and the ruins at Adulis are the assets. Access is the constraint.
SocietyDjibouti
Obock and the Eastern Migration Route
One of the world's busiest irregular migration corridors runs from the Horn toward the Gulf, and much of it passes through northern Djibouti.
SocietyEthiopia
Ethiopia Continues Nationwide Tree Planting Campaign
One of the world's largest reforestation programmes by seedling count. Survival rates are the number that matters.
BusinessSomalia
Puntland Looks to Fisheries as a Growth Sector
Some of the most productive waters in the western Indian Ocean sit off a coastline with almost no processing capacity.
Society
Drought and Displacement Remain the Horn's Largest Shared Emergency
Rainfall failure does not respect borders, and neither does the displacement that follows it.
People
The Women Running the Horn's Trade Networks
Cross-border commerce in the Horn has long been organised by women. It rarely appears in trade statistics.
CultureEritrea
Eritrean Cultural Festival Draws Regional Visitors
Nine recognised ethnic groups, nine distinct traditions, one festival calendar.
BusinessDjibouti
Djibouti's Geothermal Potential and the Cost of Power
A country sitting on a rift valley imports much of its electricity. The geology says it should not have to.
SportsEthiopia
Ethiopian Distance Running and the System Behind It
The medals are the visible part. The structure underneath is a national development pathway few countries match.
CultureSomalia
The Somali Oral Tradition Meets the Recording Age
Somali has been called a nation of poets. The written alphabet arrived only in 1972.