SPECIAL REPORT: PROSPECTS OF ANOTHER WAR IN THE HORN OF AFRICA

   Mon, 18 January 2021

A violent dispute over land rights at the Black Nile in Sudan risks escalating nationalism and warmongering over a hydropower dam at the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. The dam is also at the centre of a renewed ethnic conflict that threatens to spill over from the 2020 Tigray War. A new US administration and potential mediation by the UAE will play a critical role in coming months to avoid another war in the Horn of Africa, even while the Tigray conflict still simmers and risks destabilising the whole region.