Section

Horn of Africa

2 articles

Stories that belong to more than one country: relations, the Red Sea, trade corridors, ports, migration, climate and the regional bodies that bind the four states together.

RelationsRed SeaTradePortsDiplomacyMigrationClimateRegional Bodies

Addis Ababa African Union headquarters. File photograph, illustrating the subject of this report.

Horn of Africa

Ethiopia and Somalia Agree on New Framework for Cooperation

Delegations from both countries met to set out a structure for diplomatic, economic and security cooperation, returning to a relationship that has swung between alliance and rupture for half a century.

12 Aug 2026·12 Aug 2026

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.

10 Aug 2026·9 min read