The Official Blog of Amb. David H. Shinn

 Higher Education Today posted about a month ago a 29-minute podcast titled " Culture and History of Somaliland " hosted by Steven...

  The Habesha published on 10 March 2026 a commentary titled " Legitimacy and the Limits of Political Experimentation in Welkait ...

 The South China Morning Post published on 25 December 2025 an article titled " Exhibition Traces China's Long Links with Kenya fr...

  Ethiopia Insight published on 12 September 2025 a commentary titled " Ethiopia's Federal Future Tested in Western Tigray " ...

 Ethiopia Insight published on 2 August 2025 a commentary titled " Time's Hostage: How Ethiopia's Past Is Strangling Its Prese...

 The Valdai Discussion Club published in November 2024 a paper titled " Russia-Africa: Overcoming Challenges " by Vladimir Shubin,...

  The Diplomat published on 9 September 2024 a commentary titled " China's African Bet and Vice Versa: A Positive-Sum Game? "...

 The Rift Valley Institute and the Peace Research Facility published in 2023 a study titled " Religion in Contemporary Ethiopia: Histor...

  Ethiopia Insight published on 7 December 2023 a commentary titled " Hararis in Harar Are Being Erased and Dispossessed " by Abd...

 The Mogadishu-based Heritage Institute published in June 2023 a report titled " Transforming Somalia's Banking Sector to Ignite Ec...

  Ethiopia Insight published on 22 January 2023 a commentary titled " Ethiopian Nation-building Is Haunted by Its Troubled History ...

  Global Policy published on 27 July 2022 an analysis titled " Algeria and China: Shifts in Political and Military Relations " by...

  CBS did a brief interview titled " Grandpa Was an Emperor " with Yeshi Kassa, granddaughter of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie...

 The Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College Press published in July 2022 an edited volume titled Enabling a More Externally ...

 The International Crisis Group (ICG) posted on 22 June 2022 " Al-Shabaab Militancy in Somalia: A Timeline ."   The ICG has develo...

  Foreign Policy published on 18 June 2022 a commentary titled " Christian Nationalism Is Tearing Ethiopia Apart " by Andrew DeCo...

  The Conversation published on 29 March 2022 a commentary titled " Ethiopia's War in Tigray Risks Wiping Out Centuries of the Wor...

  Addis Insight published on 19 December 2021 an essay titled " Ethiopia: Where Two World Wars Began and the Third is Brewing " b...

 The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training published a commentary titled " The Last Emperor--The Fall of Haile Selassie ....

 The French Institute of International Relations published in September 2021 a study titled " From Friends to Partners? The Changing Na...