Horn of Africa director @CrisisGroup. host, The Horn.
Joined June 2007
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I have a new essay out in @ForeignAffairs about how the Horn of Africa is getting sucked into the Middle East at an ever accelerating pace-- and about how the hard division between the two regions was always ahistorical.
foreignaffairs.com/middle-ea…
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NEW COMMENTARY | How Algeria’s Rupture with the UAE Could Roil the Region
Algiers has severed diplomatic ties with Abu Dhabi, following years of discord. It has become a rivalry that could put regional stability at risk.
crisisgroup.org/cmt/middle-e…
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🔴 We are looking to hire a Senior Communications Officer to coordinate and support @CrisisGroup’s media outreach in Africa.
📍Hybrid / Nairobi, Kenya or Dakar, Senegal.
Learn more and apply here: jobs.crisisgroup.org/o/senio…
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To avoid greater instability, leaders in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa urgently need to “recognize how interconnected their security dilemmas have become,” writes @alanboswell.
foreignaffairs.com/middle-ea…
Grateful to @adam_tooze and @ishaantharoor for their shout-outs to my recent essay in @ForeignAffairs on the "New Red Sea Wars"
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“The story of Sudan is not just one shade.”
🎙️ On The Horn, @YousraElbagir Africa correspondent @SkyNews talks about how she draws on her personal experience in reporting on Sudan’s war.
crisisgroup.org/pod/africa/s…
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🎧 NEW EPISODE | The Horn
This week on The Horn, @alanboswell speaks with @MikeWoldemariam about the renewed conflict in northern Ethiopia and whether it could draw Ethiopia and Eritrea into a wider war.
crisisgroup.org/pod/africa/e…
As the UNSC is due to meet later today to discuss, @CrisisGroup issues a warning about how dangerously close we are to a new #Ethiopia-#Eritrea war.
Ethiopia & Eritrea have edged ever closer to conflict. Pulling them back from the brink of war should be the priority for all those interested in preventing a deadly chain of interconnected conflicts from snaking across Africa's Horn and Red Sea regions.
crisisgroup.org/alr/africa/e…
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Ethiopia & Eritrea have edged ever closer to conflict. Pulling them back from the brink of war should be the priority for all those interested in preventing a deadly chain of interconnected conflicts from snaking across Africa's Horn and Red Sea regions.
crisisgroup.org/alr/africa/e…
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I discuss here how very close we are to a new #Ethiopia-#Eritrea war, the broader regional and Red Sea dynamics, and why much-needed deescalation will be very hard.
🎧 NEW EPISODE | Hold Your Fire!
This week, @atwoodr is joined by @alanboswell to discuss the fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the risk of direct war between Ethiopia and Eritrea and what may prevent further escalation.
crisisgroup.org/pod/africa/h…
I discuss here how very close we are to a new #Ethiopia-#Eritrea war, the broader regional and Red Sea dynamics, and why much-needed deescalation will be very hard.
🎧 NEW EPISODE | Hold Your Fire!
This week, @atwoodr is joined by @alanboswell to discuss the fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the risk of direct war between Ethiopia and Eritrea and what may prevent further escalation.
crisisgroup.org/pod/africa/h…
Alan Boswell retweeted
🎧 NEW EPISODE | Hold Your Fire!
This week, @atwoodr is joined by @alanboswell to discuss the fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the risk of direct war between Ethiopia and Eritrea and what may prevent further escalation.
crisisgroup.org/pod/africa/h…
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I expanded on my latest @NewYorker column in Substack, with shout-outs to smart, related pieces by @alanboswell, @_hudsonc, @joshuakeating, and others ishaantharoor.substack.com/p…
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🙏🏿 @NobelPrize In honouring Navi Pillay you reaffirm the universality of international law and the importance of peace. A wonderful tribute to an extraordinary South African who has devoted her life to defending both. And to do this now sends a powerful message. 💫❤️
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
#NobelPrize
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Eritrean soldiers have reportedly been seen driving through northern Ethiopia. Eritrea denies that its troops have crossed the border town of Zelambessa.
Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb reports.
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“For much of the past century, policymakers have treated the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as separate strategic regions divided by the Red Sea. That distinction is now evaporating,” writes @alanboswell. bit.ly/4AXuUPm
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A vital look at the chaos and gravity of the situation in the Horn of Africa by @alanboswell foreignaffairs.com/middle-ea…
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“Unless leaders in both the Middle East and the Horn of Africa recognize how interconnected their security dilemmas have become, instability will continue to ricochet in both directions,” writes @alanboswell.
foreignaffairs.com/middle-ea…
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As Federal government forces close in on Mekelle, @AhmedSolHoA and I argue that the current conflict in #Tigray may not remain confined within Ethiopia’s borders.
The tit-for-tat closure of embassies between #Ethiopia and #Eritrea could offer an early indication of how tensions may evolve and the potential for the conflict to take on a broader regional dimension.
chathamhouse.org/2026/10/war…
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