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Dr. Suleiman WalhadEurasia Review |
There was once a time when every country was almost on its own and every country was competing with the other or others but then countries began to...
If one were travelling across the globe today, one would notice that the world is sick and ailing and wherever one looks, one would find countries in...
The international community has over the years frustrated the development processes of the region using the region’s own internal issues as key...
The political crisis in the region kept stressing it. Unrest in the Tigray State, the war that erupted in the Amhara state, the stressed relationship...
Although each country of the region has its own challenges and responsibilities towards its citizenry, it also has common regional challenges and...
Somalia has for the third time changed its constitution. The first constitution was a parliamentary system wherein the people elected representatives,...
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, a social scientist once narrated a story about a company which launched new tyres it manufactured on the market. The company...
It is often said that failure is a common occurrence in life as is success, but when coupled with a positive attitude, such failure can be...
Modern traffic is fast and plenty and can cause great dangers to both life and properties, if not managed well. This has necessitated the erection of...
A movie called “My Cousin Vinnie” is generally described as one of the greatest movies on legal matters not because of its actors or the way they...
The current situation of the region is, as is usual for the region, uncomfortable. It is marked by chaos, poverty, and internal conflicts within each...
The peace that was slowly building between Somalia and Ethiopia over the past three decades has totally collapsed in the last two months over the...
The paradoxes of the Horn of Africa States region include, among others, an important geostrategic location, a large population and
Not learning from its mistakes is one of the greatest misfortunes of the Horn of Africa States. The best way of turning defeat into victory is...
Agriculture is an important in human activity. It feeds most people across the globe and is reported that demand for food may grow by 70% by 2050 with...
We all know Toyota as the largest car manufacturer in the world, producing 10.5 million vehicles in 2017. It was followed by Volkswagen, which...
A guest once arrived to stay with a friend, and he was given a key to his room. Unfortunately, the key that was given was the wrong key that was...
Among the old Somali tales, there is one that talks about a thief and a foolish man, where upon one day the thief was walking on a road in search of...
The region is still at war with itself and most of these wars are the result of the failure of its leaders which, of course, is assisted by forces...
There was once a man who had a good business and a good life. He was in the transport business and unfortunately for him, he had acquired a vehicle...
The 44th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of 14-15 February, 2024 of the African Union will be happening today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the...
The Horn of Africa States region is clearly of interest to many parties. They include the West, of course, who were traditionally involved in the...
Traffic in modern times have increased and accordingly many signs have been created to avert dangers that could come from this new phenomenon. One...
Barbara W. Tuchman, an American historian and author of The March of Folly (1984) and “Guns of August (1962) wrote that, “History is the unfolding...
The world of today is interconnected more than it ever did in the past, and all nations are, indeed, connected through a grapevine of cables,...
The Horn of Africa States has been battling over the past decades with itself either through internecine intra-state wars or through inter-state wars...
The Horn of Africa States region is an enigma. It is a region inhabited by a people of close ethnic origins – the Cushitic peoples. It is a region...
Louis-Hubert-Gonzales Lyautey was a French statesman who lived between 1864 and 1934. He was a soldier and a marshal of France and built the French...
There is an old story of a young man who came to an expert and who enquired from him, “How long does it take to reach enlightenment?” The expert...
n my previous article on the matter on December 11, 2023, I concluded that “ It is time the regional leaders were kinder to their populations and...
Does Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed represent the epitome of a volte-face in the region’s politics. Perhaps! His recent actions and words are not vastly...
Brenda Stoner (Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021) said that “As retailers look to incorporate various technology solutions to modernize their logistics...
According to Britannica, the United Nations under the prompting of the United States resolved to hand over Eritrea to Ethiopia in 1950. This was...
It is good sometimes to retrieve old narratives to make a point. In the Horn of Africa States case, it is perhaps appropriate to refer to the creeper...
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, a Muslim scholar on Islamic Ethics for the success of life, once quoted a story with respect to a road under repairs, with a...
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India is reported to have said that “Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this...
Abhijit Naskar, a celebrated Neuroscientist on diplomacy and war and peace once said, “How come we can invent better ways to kill each other, but...
There are those who still complain of old men who passed away decades ago and still blame them their woes and inadequacies and unfortunately most...
Each generation of humanity lives in its own world realities. What was considered taboo in the past may become a reality or a scientific discovery in...
The Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, has been in power for now nearly five years. Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018, was awarded a Nobel Peace...
The Horn of Africa States is one of the most fragile states in Africa and, indeed, the world. They four SEED countries represent four of the poorest...
In Part (V) of this series, the Political Miscalculus of the EAC, we noted that “Somalia is inhabited by a distinct group called the Somali, a...
In part two of this series of “Ethiopia Losing its way,” we noted that “the region would go once again into a new cycle of violence which it...
Ethiopia is, indeed, the largest country in the region of the Horn of Africa States both area-wise (1.1 million sq.km.) and demographically (about 120...
Relations among great powers of the world and even regional leaders are getting increasingly tough, antagonistic, and undeterminable as to how they...
And we are in the second day of the first month of the new year and it should have represented for Somalis, like all the people of the world, a day of...
Although its membership is not yet ratified by its Federal Parliament, Somalia was admitted into the EAC about a little over a month ago. What drove...
The Horn of Africa States, the easternmost region of Africa, is marked by its distinct geostrategic location and hence its geopolitical value to...
They say these days that the world is more violent and less stable in many respects. Inconceivable things seem to be happening, which is jolting many...
In the centuries and thousands of years before the advent of European civilization, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean and its chokepoints always played...