How do US policymakers respond to the growing influence of US partners outside of their immediate neighborhood and into third regions? In an era of global politics characterized by increasingly indepe...

This week on The Horn, Alan talks with Michael Woldemariam, associate professor at the University of Maryland, to discuss the rising tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea, its links to the situation i...

Podcast Episode · The Horn · 01/15/2026 · 39m

Changing dynamics in Tigray could erode the current balance of uncertainty.

The collapse of the 2018–19 political transitions in Ethiopia and Sudan was one of the great African tragedies of the past decade. Three main factors caused these promising democratic openings to devo...

This week on The Horn, Alan speaks with Michael Woldemariam, associate professor at the University of Maryland, about the escalating tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the political crisis in Tigr...

Open Letter to Members of Congress from U.S.-based Scholars of Foreign Affairs Dear Senators John Thune and Charles Schumer, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Chai...

The Africa Center hosts a discussion on developments in Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti and Sudan and their wider impact on the Horn of Africa region.