The key signals across Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and the wider Horn — structured, contextualised, and delivered every week.
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Each situation rated Critical, Elevated, Watch, or Stable — so you know what actually matters.
Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, South Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Kenya — every week, every issue.
Not just what happened — what it means regionally and what to watch for next.
Written by Daniel Haile, Amira Hassan, Omar Farah, Kalid Kayo, and Yared K Senbeto.
Latest issue — Issue 15
Boulos meetings underway; sanctions relief reported. Horn geopolitics reshaping faster than regional actors have processed.
Famine declared; SAF-RSF war entering year three — pressure accelerating in Darfur with no political process in sight.
The Pretoria framework has effectively collapsed. Federal confrontation now more likely than at any point since 2022.
Washington's engagement with Asmara on Red Sea terms — no conditions on Tigray withdrawal — leaves Ethiopia facing a diplomatically strengthened adversary.
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The brief covers the full week of developments, rated by signal level, with context that raw news rarely provides.
No country is skipped because a bigger story ran. Each of the seven Horn nations gets its own assessment each week.
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