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Biruk Terrefe

@terrefebiruk.bsky.social

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Lecturer & Researcher African Politics, @unibayreuth.bsky.social | Statecraft, Infrastructure, Urbanisation, Conflict, Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, Red Sea

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Biruk Terrefe @terrefebiruk.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Standing ovations for this speech by Marco #Rubio at the #MSC2026? Rotten lot.

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Biruk Terrefe @terrefebiruk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The war over Assab’s port is already live on…Google Maps. 📍 When sovereignty becomes a drop-down option, the conflict goes full Ctrl+Territory.

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Biruk Terrefe @terrefebiruk.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Calling all scholars in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and other eligible countries! 🎓 The UTA-Do African Cities Summer School 2026 has 10 full scholarships available through the Wagon2Africa project. Apply! Deadline: Sept 30, 2025. @andretwp.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/uta-do/...

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Biruk Terrefe @terrefebiruk.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

From Cape Town’s energy sovereignty, Beira’s post-disaster reconstruction, Nairobi’s institutional innovations & accelerated planning systems to start-up cultures in Kigali and violent beautification in Addis: What is it about cities that makes them sites of experimental statecraft? #ECAS2025

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Biruk Terrefe @terrefebiruk.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

'Ethiopia's Red Sea Politics: Corridors, Ports & Security in the Horn of Africa' My latest research paper published by @rvinews.bsky.social & #XCEPT. riftvalley.net/publication/...

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Biruk Terrefe @terrefebiruk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Our new OUP book on the politics, history and political economy of Ethiopia's dam-building program is out! You can access your free pdf copy of the book at the bottom of this blogpost, which offers a succinct a summary of the book: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/dams-power-a...

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Biruk Terrefe @terrefebiruk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Friends, join @andretwp.bsky.social and me in Prague for our #ECAS2025 panel: “African Cities as testbeds: experimental statecraft in transition” Submit your abstract here under the stream ‘Urban Studies:' guarant.eu/ecasconferen...

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