@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social
2026-04-26 19:43 UTC
Two other experts appear with me, and we explain how the race to secure the Bab El Mandeb, is carving East Africa apart.
The region has the world's bloodiest ongoing conflict still raging on in Sudan, and reels from the Tigray war, the deadliest conflict of the 21st century that killed half a million people in Ethiopia and ended in 2022.
With both countries becoming proxy battlegrounds for regional powers, a new conflict could engulf Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan.
https://www.thetimes.com/video/originals/article/is-this-africas-next-big-conflict-29hrzff3t
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@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social 2026-04-26 19:48
Dear friends, I hope one thing is clear from this: the whole "Africans are war prone" trope needs to go. Yes, the continent remains cursed with leaders who are willing to kill before making the slightest compromise. However, East Africa is some exhibit: the worst mass murderers and warlords have wealthy sponsors in the Middle East fattening their coffers. Millions of people have no say in what happens, and are at the mercy of decision makers in faraway MENA capitals, chasing geopolitical Ws.