Alex de Waal
Selecting a title for their book, Tobias Hagmann and Finn Stepputat chose ‘Trade makes States.’ It’s an obvious riff on the famous line by Charles Tilly, […]
Continue Reading →Thirty years ago this week, on July 11, 1993 to be precise, a military attorney attached to the UN Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM) instructed that I should be detained.
The […]
Continue Reading →The conflict in Ethiopia appears to have entered a new phase as forces loyal to Tigrayan rebels and their allies march towards the capital city, Addis Ababa. International efforts to […]
Continue Reading →By Nisar Majid and Khalif Abdirahman
A Two-Year Presidential Extension in Somalia?
Somalia’s President and Lower House of Parliament have just extended their terms in office by two […]
Continue Reading →Thirty years after the overthrow of President Mohamed Siad Barre, Somalia is in a new interregnum. This time, most of the Somali political elite share a consensus on the next […]
Continue Reading →‘Focus on loss of life – and urgently trying to prevent it – rather than whether a famine has been declared.’
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