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Expert briefing
Publication date: 8 August 2022

The consultations followed major public protests after it emerged the government had in 2021 signed a secret deal with Cairo to restart the project, which would boost Egypt’s…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 2 May 2018

The deal is the latest development in an increasingly frantic race for military and commercial port infrastructure spanning 1,200 kilometres of the Horn of Africa’s coastline…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 27 April 2018

Eritrea and regional geopolitics

Expert briefing
Publication date: 9 December 2020

This may see a redefining of US-Africa policy compared to the Trump administration’s focus on competition with China, including: resolving questions surrounding the role for US…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 24 January 2018

Tensions along Africa’s Red Sea coast have been escalating since the beginning of the year. Fraught negotiations over GERD have been at times overshadowed by mutual recriminations…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 April 2022

China’s engagement comes amid multiple crises in the region, most notably in Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 16 August 2017

This falls just short of a 'famine' warning -- which would require 20% of households to face catastrophe levels, as well as heightened malnutrition and mortality rates. The UN has…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 27 March 2020

Trilateral talks over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 29 July 2020

The nearly completed mega-dam has been a source of immense friction between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, but recent developments could create space to de-escalate.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 28 June 2021

This goal was implicitly a response to the previous three decades of foreign relations under ousted former President Omar al-Bashir, when Sudan struggled under international…

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