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Research report

28th March 2025

Legally Informal: Women, conflict and cross-border trade in ...

Dalle Abraham
In the Mandera triangle—a pastoralist region encompassing the point at which the borders of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia meet—the reality of local and ...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Gender Conflict Economies Borderlands

Research report

28th March 2025

Digital Governance and Security in the Horn of Africa

Peter Chonka
While digital finance—including mobile money—has developed unevenly across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, such technologies are nevertheless transformin...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Conflict Economies Borderlands

Event

31st March 2025

Beyond the State: Community self-governance in the borderlan...

Join us on 31 March 2025 at the event highlighted key lessons from a community-led process involving 50 Somali participants from diverse backgrounds.
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Borderlands

Research report

26th March 2025

Gold and the war in Sudan

Ahmed Soliman, Suliman Baldo
Gold has long been a conflict commodity in Sudan and continues to be the subject of intense competition between national and subnational military acto...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Transnational Flows Conflict Economies

Blog

26th March 2025

What ten villages on the Somalia-Kenya border can tell us ab...

Patta Scott-Villiers
What areas that haven’t received much humanitarian aid can tell us about how communities can cope with the recent reductions in foreign aid.
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance Borderlands

Briefing paper

25th March 2025

When fighting terrorism promotes safe havens: experimental e...

Jillian Foster, Peter Onah Thompson
How can multinational counterterrorism efforts better engage with, and earn the support of, local communities?
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Violent Extremism Governance Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Research report

24th March 2025

Ethiopia’s Red Sea Politics: Corridors, ports and security i...

Biruk Terrefe
The Horn of Africa is a region marked by complex infrastructural interdependencies, where the decline and emergence of trade corridors continue to res...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Transnational Flows Conflict Economies Borderlands

Article

21st March 2025

Tunisia’s Climate Crisis, Economic Downturn, and Growing Dep...

Hamza Meddeb
Since 2017, Tunisia has experienced intensified climate change effects, including severe drought. President Kais Saied’s governance failures have only...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Transnational Flows Conflict Response Conflict Economies Borderlands

Blog

19th March 2025

XCEPT local research legacy: Sharing the experiences of wome...

Elizabeth Nyibol Malou
Elizabeth Nyibol Malou shares how her involvement in the XCEPT programme’s Local Research Network since 2018 has fostered valuable collaborations and ...
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Sudan South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Migration Conflict Response Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

19th March 2025

XCEPT local research legacy: How collaborative research and ...

Joseph Majok
Joseph Diing Majok shares his reflections on how his involvement in the XCEPT programme’s Local Research Network has shaped his research career, parti...
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Sudan South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Conflict Response Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

19th March 2025

XCEPT local research legacy: Xogta xuduudaha (knowledge of t...

Sahra Ahmed Koshin
Sahra Ahmed Koshin reflects on her transformative experience as a local researcher with the XCEPT programme, exploring the role of Somali women in cro...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Ethiopia Migration Conflict Economies Borderlands

Blog

27th February 2025

Why South Sudan’s Unity State is drowning in pollution

Mawal Marko Gatkuoth
The rural population of Unity State has been suffering from pollution since the construction of a pipeline through Unity State in 1999, and the intens...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance

Article

25th February 2025

Untangling Africa’s world war: mediation in the Democratic R...

Michael Aeby
This case study explores how international mediation efforts in the  Second Congo War (1998-2003) affected, and addressed, the regionalisation of the ...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

21st February 2025

How conflict in Libya facilitated transnational expansion of...

Tim Eaton
Migrant smuggling and trafficking has flourished through Libya since its 2011 conflict. This article explains how this happened and why European polic...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Organised Crime Migration Governance

Research report

19th February 2025

‘The fuel is us’: water, oil and debt on the Sudan-South Sud...

Nikki Kindersley
Years of conflict and natural disasters in the Sudan-South Sudan borderlands have created a displaced population reliant on low-paid, risky work, and ...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Governance Conflict Economies Borderlands

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