![]() ![]() Sudan’s military and paramilitary forces have cast an increasingly long shadow over the supposed transition underway in the country, while growing tensions between Ethiopia’s new administration and its former rulers - the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) - led to fears of civil war, as disorder spread to several parts of the country (see International Crisis Group, 2020a ). A dubious peace deal was reached in South Sudan in September of 2018 at the insistence of Sudan and Uganda, months after Saudi Arabia and the UAE brokered a peace agreement in Ethiopia and Eritrea in July (see Woldemariam, 2018 Watson, 2019 ).Įvents in the Horn have not proceeded entirely smoothly since these changes, despite initial optimism that a more pluralistic form of politics led by civilians would take root in Sudan and Ethiopia. This culminated in a coup in April 2019 which was greenlit by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ( Gallopin, 2020 ). In December of that year, anti-government demonstrations began in Sudan. Following years of protests in the restive Oromia region, a power transition took place in Ethiopia in April 2018. ![]() Since 2018, the Horn of Africa has made headlines for a series of dramatic developments. ![]()
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