The problems of Tigray are not to be found in former fighters awaiting a sustainable return to civilian life; nor in the internally displaced people awaiting the chance to return to their homes; nor in the hopes for recovery of war shattered communities; nor even in the fact [...]
With the international media focussed very much on the crisis in Sudan, it is tempting to think that this is a local problem from which others can divorce themselves, pausing briefly only to help a few foreigners to leave. But far from being a surprise, what has [...]
More questions than answers on the way forward for Tigray. But hope is not a good basis for strategic planning and wishing that the problem would go away is pointless. In such a context, results cannot be bought - rather grown over time. But the humanitarian clock [...]
In a world beset by COVID-19 (C19), the scope to miss other important signs of change or tension is great. In the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia features in quite a number situation, some of which are coming to a head quietly and in the background. It is as [...]