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Dr. Suleiman WalhadEurasia Review |
In a Visual Capitalist report of September 17th, 2024, it was noted that the US Dollar dominates the world reserve currencies at 59%. It is followed...
In the Horn of Africa States region, conflicts and economic challenges still continue, The region remains poor, and its population
The economic history of Africa is as old as the first people of mankind. The economy of the continent moved from hunter gathering to agriculture...
The Horn of Africa States region has been a significant geopolitical battleground on the world stage since the opening of
A little over a century ago, the region was always a net exporter o f goods and services to the outside world. Today, it is a net importer of most of...
When discussing the economies of the Horn of Africa States region, as is the case with the rest of Africa,
A seventeen-year-old operation which has not achieved its goal can only be considered a total failure, which by all standards and common sense, must...
The geo-strategic location of the Horn of Africa States always comes to mind when writing about the region. It is not strange and its is not a...
The Indian Ocean was always an ocean of communication, trade and human activity from times immemorial. It connected Africa to
Earlier in the year and more specifically on July 28th July 2024, Ethiopia made a historic move. It introduced a new macroeconomic reform process,...
There were strong leaders in the past and throughout history but not necessarily great leaders. Some of them built nations
Ethiopia’s quest for an access to a sea has been the talk of the Horn of Africa States over the past year. This has caused relations between the...
There is a fear among all Ethiopians and many pundits outside Ethiopia that the country is in danger of disintegrating from within, let alone from...
Ethiopia stepped into a destructive path in 2020 when it started a war with itself. Inter-state wars are often reported
The Horn of Africa States is an important junction in world affairs and this pivots to its vital linkage in world shipping and hence trade and...
In my article of February 2, 2024, entitled “The Perils of Haste” and published in Eurasia Review, I noted that,
This is not intended to be like a seers saying but an attempt should always be made to predict what
I often read that Africa’s resources are a curse to the continent and not a blessing. This is a frightening description of the resources of the...
The Horn of Africa States seems to be falling into a new trap, engineered from beyond the region and which
The Horn Africa waters are in the news lately not because of their life-giving abilities but because of the tensions
Ethiopia is administratively organized into twelve ethnic-based states and they are the Afar, the Amhara, the Benishangul-Gumuz, the Gambela, the...
David G. Haglund through an article edited by Encyclopedia Britannica explains that “an alliance in international relations means an agreement
The world knows that the Red Sea and hence its littoral countries on both banks, thereof, are important and form part of the critical elements for a...
The region’s future as usual remains conflicted, confused and uncertain. In the past, at least, Ethiopia was considered stable. Today,
The current brand of talks and narrative in the region remains to be that of war. Is that a new phenomenon or is this just a continuation of the...
The Somali Shilling shortened as “SOS” was created by the Somali Republic as the official currency of Somalia in 1962, but its debut goes back...
Americans vote for their presidents with respect to American issues, not really much on matters related to foreign issues, and the Horn of Africa...
Long before the advent of the current leaderships, there was a loss of reason and logic in the region. Somalia had a brief exposure to democratic...
About eight months ago, on December 16th, 2023, I wrote on the subject matter in an article published on Eurasiareview.com and noted that the Horn...
The quest for peace and tranquility in the Horn of Africa States region is an elusive proposition. It is a
Somalis are generally nationalistic, much like any other people. They love their lands, seas, and spaces. But in every country
Some fifty years ago there was generally no talk of Islamic banking and finance. The industry was just born to meet the needs of Muslims who were...
After all the wars and horrors thereof and more particularly the Second World War between the years 1939 to 1945, which saw the holocaust and the use...
Landlocked countries have their existence rooted in the notion of the nation states, which was mostly concocted by Europeans during
They say and it has been proven, many times over, that history ryhmes. The world works in cycles – time, climate, wars, even financial markets....
AMISOM was first deployed in Somalia in 2007. It replaced another African mission that was called IGADSOM, a peacekeeping force that was sent by the...
Unresolved ethnic grievances have always led to violence throughout history, no matter how long they stay dormant. And ashes, they say, sometimes,...
The first half of this year was a tumultuous, precarious, and dangerous time in the Horn of Africa. It was
Collective work and collective actions represent and involve multiple parties or groups of people working together. This requires a deep
Installing peace among quarreling family members like the clan quarrels of Somalia is not only difficult but may also instigate a reversal of...
Lop-sided constitutional reform processes pushed by one party and opposed by the rest, political out-maneuverings by some parties as opposed to...
How does a group of countries whose leaderships are mostly tainted by some kind of misgovernance could ever lead to a successful intergovernmental...
A foreign policy is a major component of any country’s national infrastructure and statehood. It is a guide to a government’s relations with other...
The Horn of Africa States region is not new to dictatorial tendencies of its leaderships. The region’s population consists of tribal and clan...
Money is as old as when humankind started to exchange the toils of their resourcefulness. It started initially through bartering of commodities,...
Almost every adult in the Horn of Africa States region is probably a politician – an ethno-politician. Ethnicity appears to
Over decades now, we have presented the Horn of Africa States discussing, explaining and narrating through many dimensions the raison d’etre for an...
The Horn of Africa States region commands the major waterway, which connects the Indian ocean to the Suez Canal including
It was always clear that Ethiopia’s false historical narrative would one day catch up with it. The country that was Abyssinia and adopted Africa’s...
On June 7th, 2024, the East Africa Community held its 23rd Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of State of the member countries. The EAC is a regional...