Horn of Africa and the Sahel

Blog

30th August 2022

Frontier Farming: Along the War-Torn Ethiopia-Sudan Border, ...

The capture of fertile agricultural land in Western Tigray and the eastern Sudanese Al Fashaga region sheds light on how profits from cash crops help ...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Conflict Economies Borderlands

Event

20th July 2022

Virtual Launch Event: Border Towns, Market and Conflict

As part of the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) program, the X-Border Local Research Network held a report launch event to ex...

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Blog

23rd March 2022

What are the Causes of Somaliland’s Drought Crisis?

Ahmed M. Musa

This blog is the first in a series published by the Rift Valley Institute to help understand the causes of the drought-related crisis in the Somali re...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Borderlands

Research report

12th January 2022

Social Media and the Transnational Everyday

Peter Chonka

Mobility, opportunity and risk in Hargeisa, Somaliland.

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Transnational Flows

Briefing paper

16th December 2021

What Next for the Juba Peace Agreement After the Coup in Sud...

This report considers what impact recent events may have on the Juba Peace Agreement and, more generally, peace and security in Sudan’s conflict affec...

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Blog

1st December 2021

Can Ethiopia Avert Deep Turmoil and Prioritize Peace?

Ahmed Soliman

Ethiopia’s devastating civil war recently entered into its second year and, to achieve peace, both sides in the conflict need to accept some difficult...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Governance Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics

Research report

30th November 2021

Trade, Taxes and Tensions in the Somali Borderlands

Tobias Hagmann

Trade, Taxes and Tensions explores how cross-border trade affects both cooperation and conflict between the states and state-like entities in the Soma...

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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Transnational Flows Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Event

20th August 2020

World Bank Fragility Forum: The ‘Transnational Everyday’ in ...

Sahra Ahmed Koshin, Freddie Carver, Hannah Stogdon

A focus on recent research on local populations’ everyday experience of transnational connectedness in the Horn and the implications for the aid and d...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Transnational Flows Conflict Response Borderlands

Interview

20th March 2020