Analysis Somalia America Is Walking Away From Somalia — And the Mission That Has Held the Line Against Al-Shabaab Is Finished July 6, 2026 Horn Eye On July 1, 2026, the United States sent a letter to the African Union. It was not long. It did not need to be. In diplomatic language that left no…
Analysis The Horn Is Now One War July 5, 2026 Horn Eye For years, the world looked at the Horn of Africa and saw a collection of separate problems. Sudan’s civil war was Sudan’s problem. Ethiopia’s internal conflicts were Ethiopia’s problem. Somalia’s…
Home The Red Sea Is Not Africa’s Problem to Solve July 1, 2026 Horn Eye Nobody asked the Horn of Africa if it wanted to become the world’s most contested maritime frontier. It didn’t get a vote. The Houthi crisis simply arrived — and behind…
Home Saudi Arabia Turns on the UAE — The Counter-Axis Reshaping the Red Sea June 30, 2026 Horn Eye For nearly a decade, Saudi Arabia and the UAE moved through the Middle East and the Horn of Africa as a single force. Two Gulf monarchies, two intelligence services, one…
Opinion Somalia Why Some Somali Politicians Need Crisis More Than Peace June 13, 2026 Horn Eye Every Somali political crisis arrives with a familiar explanation. Weak institutions. Clan competition. Foreign interference. A state still struggling to recover from the collapse of 1991. All of these contain…
Djibouti Red Sea Why Global Powers Keep Returning to Djibouti June 12, 2026 Horn Eye At first glance, Djibouti appears to be a small desert nation with limited natural resources and a population of just over one million people. Yet despite its size, it has…
Horn of Africa Kenya Kenya and the UAE: The Strategic Partnership Transforming East Africa June 12, 2026 Horn Eye For years, discussions about foreign influence in East Africa focused largely on China, the United States, and former colonial powers. Today, another player is rapidly expanding its footprint across the…
Red Sea Somaliland The Berbera Axis: Berbera, Socotra, and the New Strategic Architecture Reshaping June 11, 2026 Horn Eye Draw a map of the Red Sea and mark every location where the UAE and Israel have established a military presence, strategic foothold, or advanced surveillance capability. What emerges is…
Kenya Somalia Kenya’s Somalia Gamble — How Nairobi Is Betting on Jubaland and Losing Mogadishu June 10, 2026 Horn Eye Kenya has always wanted a buffer zone on its northeastern border. After decades of instability, refugee flows, and al-Shabaab attacks that have killed hundreds of Kenyan civilians, Nairobi concluded that…
Ethiopia Horn of Africa Abiy Ahmed Wins – But Ethiopia’s Real Problems Are Just Beginning June 10, 2026 Horn Eye The result was never seriously in doubt. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s victory in Ethiopia’s June 2026 general election was described by voters themselves as already decided and already calculated before…
