Nanyang Technological University posted on 26 November 2025 an article titled "DP World Launches Shipping Corridor between Dubai and Somaliland."
The UAE's DP World has launched a shipping route connecting Dubai's Jebel Ali Port with Berbera Port in Somaliland on the Gulf of Aden. Most of the trade on this new route will come from and go to landlocked Ethiopia's 130 million people.
The London School of Economics and Political Science posted on 18 September 2025 a commentary titled "China's LAPSSET Corridor and the US's Stakes in the Horn of Africa" by Tewodros Woldearegay, Lingnan University.
China is financing and building development projects in the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor designed to create an East African economic zone. China's engagement threatens to limit long-standing US security interests in the region. The author argues that the US and its allies need to do a better job of offering economic and security alternatives to counter China's initiatives.
Aljazeera published on 9 September 2025 an article and two and one-half minute video titled "Ethiopia Inaugurates GERD Dam Amid Downstream Tensions with Egypt, Sudan."
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on 9 September in the presence of the leaders of Kenya and Somalia. Leaders of Egypt and Sudan continued to express their fears that the dam will threaten their country's water security.
The South China Morning Post published on 30 August 2025 an article titled "A New Model for Peace? China Takes Its Global Security Initiative to Africa" by Jevans Nyabiage.
Africa is a key testing area for China's Global Security Initiative (GSI), which is evolving from an ambiguous concept to concrete training and military and police assistance programs. The GSI also encourages China's security model, which has the potential to entrench a politicized military.
The Washington Post published on 2 May 2025 an article titled "After 100 Days, the Toll of Trump's Foreign Aid Cuts Has Begun to Sink In" by Sammy Westfall.
The Trump administration has axed more than 80 percent of the programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The administration is also in the process of slashing the U.S. African Development Foundation, U.S. Institute of Peace, Inter-American Foundation, and Millennium Challenge Corporation.
The article looks at the impact of these cuts on South Sudan, Ethiopia, Jordan, Tanzania, Eswatini, Lesotho, Afghanistan, and Yemen.
Comment: The administration is getting close to ending government-funded soft power, which has traditionally been a major U.S. foreign policy tool. Although they will not fill the financial void left by the United States, the governments of China and Russia will take very possible advantage of America's departure from these programs.
The Washington Post published on 31 August 2023 an article titled "U.S. Presses Saudi Arabia on Reported Migrant Massacres" by Missy Ryan, Sarah Dadouch, John Hudson, and Karen DeYoung.
The Biden administration is pressing the government of Saudi Arabia to identify the military units along the Yemen/Saudi border alleged by Human Rights Watch to have killed Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who were trying to enter the country. The United States has trained the maritime division of the Saudi border guards and the kingdom is the single largest customer for foreign military sales.
